Yesterday there was a lot of buzz on the web about Facebook being banned from workplaces. Apparently close to 50 percent of all businesses have banned the site. Supposedly in the U.K. more than 70 percent of businesses have banned Facebook and similar social networks. This seems like an extremely high number of businesses.
Only one of the places that I have worked in the past three years banned access to social sites. Now that my job surrounds Facebook, I certainly am not banned. My guess is that most of the readers to this blog have not been banned at work either. Although maybe this is where people come when they can’t get on Facebook. Are you allowed to access Facebook from work?
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I'm fine! Contractor for #1 IT multinational.. access is fine. You just don't take the mickey, coz ITSEC are watching what sites you are on. I reckon this is simply people who prob dont have net access anyway! (or another crappy article like that one by the spam filtering firm last week)
Comment by jez — August 23, 2007 @ 7:59 am
I'm fine! Contractor for #1 IT multinational.. access is fine. You just don't take the mickey, coz ITSEC are watching what sites you are on.
I reckon this is simply people who prob dont have net access anyway! (or another crappy article like that one by the spam filtering firm last week)
Comment by jez — August 23, 2007 @ 8:59 am
damn… just had it banned, today, at Lloyds TSB in the UK. can't really justify spending most of the day using it when you work for a bank
Comment by simon — August 23, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
While I personally don’t use Facebook for work a lot of our employees do use it as part of their day to day job duties (I work at a webmaster outsourcing company) so it is definitely not banned here.
Comment by Chris Sandberg — August 23, 2007 @ 2:32 pm
While I personally don’t use Facebook for work a lot of our employees do use it as part of their day to day job duties (I work at a webmaster outsourcing company) so it is definitely not banned here.
Comment by Chris Sandberg — August 23, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
my last 2 jobs facebook was banned. This happens more often than you might think.
Comment by Brian — August 23, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
my last 2 jobs facebook was banned. This happens more often than you might think.
Comment by Brian — August 23, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
damn… just had it banned, today, at Lloyds TSB in the UK. can’t really justify spending most of the day using it when you work for a bank
Comment by simon — August 23, 2007 @ 5:59 pm
[...] content then I shall be looking for a less populist website. The fact that it’s been banned in certain work environments demonstrates it’s declining value as a social networking website. [...]
Pingback by Richard’s blog » Cheapening the user experience — August 24, 2007 @ 3:40 am
Well, since my boss & the boss's wife (who also happen to be the company's owners) have their own facebook pages, he has no reason to ban it at work for the rest of us. He spends most of his time surfing the net anyways & he KNOWS what would happen if he should deny his employees the same privileges (and believe me, it would not be pretty). Guess that's the benefit of working in a small office.
Comment by Michelle — August 24, 2007 @ 9:14 am
Well, since my boss & the boss’s wife (who also happen to be the company’s owners) have their own facebook pages, he has no reason to ban it at work for the rest of us. He spends most of his time surfing the net anyways & he KNOWS what would happen if he should deny his employees the same privileges (and believe me, it would not be pretty). Guess that’s the benefit of working in a small office.
Comment by Michelle — August 24, 2007 @ 1:14 pm
i need to get on facebook to get a picture cuz i dont have it anywhere elese and works bans it,m so i need and am trying to find a site that my cpu will allow
Comment by kelli — December 6, 2007 @ 3:52 am
its blocked at school so i have nothin to do !!!!!
Comment by blake — January 28, 2008 @ 4:16 am
its blocked at school so i have nothin to do !!!!!
Comment by blake — January 28, 2008 @ 8:16 am
If you can't log into Facebook use facemate.co.uk for a work around to log in.
Comment by Marcus Heap — June 3, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
If you can’t log into Facebook use facemate.co.uk for a work around to log in.
Comment by Marcus Heap — June 3, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
I have been trying to find a way to log on to facebook forever. But i still cant.
Comment by Levi — February 4, 2009 @ 10:18 am
I never had facebook until I went to my current job where my 'boss' yes boss…told me I should open a facebook account and that sh isn't funny with stuff like that. She is a 'cool' boss. Lol she banned it two days ago, sad thing is it's the only access I have to the net and I run a charity for animals off it. She has a facebook account or two I'm not sure and often I find she's been on or I have to close her page for her as she forgets it's open! Why do such a thing as encourage it and then take it away, it honestly wasn't abused.
Comment by Lynda — March 5, 2009 @ 11:10 pm