Social Networking at the Work place
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Social Networking at the Work place 1. Statement of Policy The policy plan is about the need to have moderate use of social networking at the workplace. This policy is aimed at ensuring the employee use of social networking at the workplace does not override their ability to meet their job requirements. The plan aims at ensuring the moderate use of social networking to augment their ability to meet deadlines as the overuse of social networking reducing their ability to work well and reduces their efficiency. The current situation has seen the overuse of social networking at the workplace that has led to reduced efficiency. The employees’ ability to beat deadlines has diminished and empirical study has shown the reason as spending most of the time on social networks. The main social networking sites the employees are passing working time on include twitter, facebook owing to the ability of the two sites to connect them woih friends, family, and the Provision of real time chatting and messaging services. The policy intends to moderate the use of social networking at the workplace as a means of improving the efficiency of the employees and improve time management for the benefit of the ability of the company to meet its aims. 2. Scope of the Policy The main reason for the policy introduction is that the productivity of the employees and the work quality has been diminishing overtime since the introduction of internet connectivity at the workplace (Guerin, 2011 ). This has occasioned the need for the introduction of a policy to moderate social networking at the workplace. The policy will apply to all workers in the organization between the official working hours meant for the performance of the company’s duties. The policy also applies to paid overtime as this also represents time