Companies are increasingly banning sites like Facebook because they clog up corporate networks
Facebook ban could lead to staff exodus
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05 Jun 2008, Iain Thomson , V3
A survey of 1,000 office staff has found that nearly a third of younger employees would consider quitting their job if Facebook was banned in the workplace.
The survey by IT services firm Telindus found that 39 per cent of 18 to 24 year-olds would consider leaving if they were not allowed to access applications like Facebook and YouTube.
A further 21 per cent indicated that they would feel 'annoyed' by such a ban.
The problem is less acute with 25 to 65 year-olds, of whom just 16 per cent would consider leaving and 13 per cent would be annoyed.
Mark Hutchinson, managing director of Telindus, said: "An outright ban on personal internet usage is clearly not the right approach.
"However, the challenge is to achieve the right balance between allowing employees personal internet time without jeopardising the bandwidth required for business applications.
"It is commercially unwise to have a bandwidth free-for-all, especially when you consider that downloading a single half-hour TV show consumes more bandwidth than receiving 200 emails a day for a year."
Companies are increasingly looking to ban sites like Facebook because they clog up corporate networks and take up employees' time.
Interestingly, the survey revealed that employees would be supportive of a ban if it made other network functions faster.
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Do you agree?
facebook
ban it completely NOW! What with shanking...(duhh) and other idiotic stuff on facebook from seriously gormless and brainless (I blame the teachers) teenagers its time to BAN IT COMPLETELY and also associated sites like YOUTUBE get rid now!!!
Posted by David who could write joined-up writing at 7 years old, 28 Jul 2008
Work is not prison
A job should not be like prison. We are adults and we understand we have a responsibilty to work. We are in the office eight and a half hours a day so 5 minutes stress release on Facebook will not detract from any work done.
Infact, Making people work non-stop all day will detract from their productivity in the work place. Why not ban the coffee making facilities while we're at it!
Posted by Stephanie Colini, 17 Sep 2008
Face Book effects on employee perfomance
I guess the only way to maintain your productive staff will be to ban all social networking sites.
There's only 8hrs to carry out daily tasks at work, but you find that some employees will spend half the time on social networking sites like facebook etc, and that just delays everything else,
Not to mention the effect it has on the bandwidth, time is money poeple, shall you be so interested in networking do it at your own time or at home.
Regards
Posh De Blackhat
Posted by Portia Mkhize, 16 Sep 2008
An alternative?
I work for a bank. It bans yahoo, gmail, youtube, facebook, etc from work PCs. However it does provide PCs off the company's intranet but on the internet that one can use at break-time or lunch to access these sites.
Posted by Michael Harper, 17 Sep 2008