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Stop Everything! People In Offices Are (Oh No!) SOCIAL With Each Other!
from the this-must-STOP dept
It's always fun to read news articles based on the somewhat breathless claims of internet monitoring and filtering firms. They come out with all sorts of studies and press releases that try to make the most innocent things sound absolutely scary. The most common are stories that make it sound positively awful that some people might do some personal surfing at work! Oh, the horror! Notice that reports like that never seem to mention studies that have shown those little breaks often help productivity while making more loyal employees. The latest, though, is a report that is warning absolutely everyone that (gasp! oh no!) people use work email for social purposes! Now, many people might think such things are a good sign. It means that your employees get along with each other. However, according to a company trying to sell email monitoring tools, it's a "problem" that needs to be kept to a "minimum." Yes, there are always issues of abuse, but if people aren't getting their work done, then that should be the sign of the problem -- not whether they discussed their weekend plans via email. Of course, given recent NLRB rulings about how companies have the right to ban any employee fraternization either at work or away from it, perhaps being friendly to your co-workers is a thing of the past.
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Can we get a little perspective please, and quit pretending that any monitoring of employee misuse of IT systems is automatically horrible? Oh no, of course not, this is Techdirt. My mistake.
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