HR Professional - April/May 2008 - (Page 20) COVER STORY WEB 2.0 @ WORK Ban it or Embrace it B Y E L I Z A B E T H K E L LY F YOU THINK FACEBOOK IS a de facto online service for hooking up; if you consider YouTube a place for exhibitionists to post embarrassing shots of what they did last summer; well, you’re right but you’re only half right. sum Chances are you’re also like Ontario Premier Dalton C McGuinty, whose Liberal government banned Facebook.com M and forbade other social media networks from the business an computers of Ontario government workers. c The decision to restrict access to Facebook (beloved by an estimated 30 million users internationally) seems both appropriately earnest—if you happen to hold traditional views of the workplace as a glorified lockbox with employees’ noses to the grindstone for eight hours—or wit prissy, punitive and out-of-touch if you are: a) under 35 years of age or b) perceive the wor workplace as an evolving dynamic community rather than a rigid pyramidal hierarchy. hie I Damned if you do…. The government’s distaste for social media in the workplace is emblematic of our complicated relationship with the “new normal” of doing business. While subject to interpretation, exiling Facebook can be seen as drawing a necessary line in the sand—or maybe it’s the reflexive response to a world that is about to change regardless of what anyone thinks. The evidence on the side of restriction is compelling. Dr. Richard Cullen, president of Australian Internet security firm Surfcontrol, created a storm of ‘‘ Social media, like its influential predecessors, the phone, television, e-mail and the Internet, appears set to prevail against the naysayers. 20 A p r i l / M a y 2 0 0 8 HR P R OF E S S I ON A L ’’ http://Facebook.com
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