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Social Networking: The New Workplace Smoke Break

Posted by samzenpus on from the friend-em-if-you-got-em dept.

snydeq writes "J. Peter Bruzzese sees a solution for organizations seeking to cut down employee time spent on social networks at work: treat social networking like a smoke break. 'Try as you might to keep social networks at bay, mobile devices let people be in constant connection to their social networking vices over the cellular networks, which you can't block. Still, it's not completely impossible to stop social time-wasting over mobile: You can establish policies that, if enforced strongly enough, eliminate social networks from being accessed on company time. Treat it like smoking: Let employees take a 15-minute coffee/smoking/Facebook break and make them go to a designated area to do it.'"

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  1. I'm using my 15 minutes to make a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    first post!

  2. So - the smokers get double breaks? by DontScotty · · Score: 5, Funny

    So - the smokers get double breaks?

    Since, they will be smoking while using the social media - that's multi-tasking. Like, 30 minutes worth of break time in 15 minutes.

    Not fair to those with untainted lungs!

    1. Re:So - the smokers get double breaks? by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 4, Funny

      It was only a matter of time before we discovered that facebook caused cancer, in fairness.

    2. Re:So - the smokers get double breaks? by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

      Me too, and I don't smoke.

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  3. Great Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we can start treating all the 'Social Networkers' as Pariahs just like we do with Smokers.

    Send them outside into the rain and snow if they want to be sociable...

  4. Re:Multi-Account Apple Troll bonch Is Back! by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plus tens to hundreds of other throwaway dummy accounts.

    ... says mr. "Anonymous Coward".
    I've seen you use tens of thousands of throwaway dummy accounts and usually you're just trolling or flamebating.

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  5. Second hand by careysb · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm concerned about second hand Facebook.