A Triangle Love Story...
This story is about a Triangle love Story of Social Networking, Employee and Employer. As you all can understand from Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, Foursquare etc., employees are in love with Social Networking. Of course, Social Networking is also getting benefits from employee updates. So its two way love. Then where is the problem? The problem is with girls parents always, that is employer in this case.
As parents try to control their children, Organization want to have control on employee updates into Social Networking. All big companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Apple are having the Social Networking policies in place already. Do you know all Hollywood stars contracts have Social networking clause ? yes they are NOT supposed to leak anything about the movie in their social networks.
So now these controls are coming to Consulting and offshore based firms. Recently NASSCOM asked Infosys to come up with Social Networking policies. Now Infosys is ready with that weapon, I mean Social networking rules and guidelines. They will be out by August. All other companies like Wipro and TCS will also coming up with their policies by year end.
You know the way BP is damaged with Twitter and Facebook. Boycott BP page on Face book has little around half million followers. BP satiric twitter account and quarter million followers. These are highlighted by TIME, NYT etc., So the point is Social Networking is double edged weapon.
Coming back to our Triangle love story, Employer want to have control on the Employees thoughts. Just the way in India Parents decide / control their children marriage. So now the girl needs to decide whether she wants to stick to their parents thoughts (in my story Employer controlling updates of employee) or want to decide her life basing on her thoughts (updating free flowing thoughts from employee into Social Networking). As always Indian girls stick to their parents, here in my story employees will stick to their employers guideline book. They will kill their free flowing thoughts.
Do you call it happy ending ??? May be ? May not be ? But thats the way it works :-)
As parents try to control their children, Organization want to have control on employee updates into Social Networking. All big companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Apple are having the Social Networking policies in place already. Do you know all Hollywood stars contracts have Social networking clause ? yes they are NOT supposed to leak anything about the movie in their social networks.
So now these controls are coming to Consulting and offshore based firms. Recently NASSCOM asked Infosys to come up with Social Networking policies. Now Infosys is ready with that weapon, I mean Social networking rules and guidelines. They will be out by August. All other companies like Wipro and TCS will also coming up with their policies by year end.
You know the way BP is damaged with Twitter and Facebook. Boycott BP page on Face book has little around half million followers. BP satiric twitter account and quarter million followers. These are highlighted by TIME, NYT etc., So the point is Social Networking is double edged weapon.
Coming back to our Triangle love story, Employer want to have control on the Employees thoughts. Just the way in India Parents decide / control their children marriage. So now the girl needs to decide whether she wants to stick to their parents thoughts (in my story Employer controlling updates of employee) or want to decide her life basing on her thoughts (updating free flowing thoughts from employee into Social Networking). As always Indian girls stick to their parents, here in my story employees will stick to their employers guideline book. They will kill their free flowing thoughts.
Do you call it happy ending ??? May be ? May not be ? But thats the way it works :-)
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