Many businesses are challenged with employee recruitment, retention, training, and benefits, but now that technology is such a prevalent part of our everyday life, businesses are now facing the social networking explosion in the workplace.
The City of Grand Island was recently faced with something they hadn't prepared for, employees using social networking while on the city's clock. "With social networking technology such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn, virtually every employer is dealing with the same types of issues that Hall County is regarding using time and resources or disclosing inappropriate information about or from the workplace, he said. " (Grand Island Independent) The bottom line, is the board decided that employees shouldn't be accessing social networking sites during company time or on company equipment.
"Young said the technology does allow for better connectivity and communication and can even improved productivity. He cited multiple times when deputy county attorney's have used teh county's electronic infrastructure to research cases at home or prepare legal work for the county at home after hours." (Grand Island Independent) However, he continued to say that he feels that technology can drain productivity in the workplace.
It is clear that most of the time, digital citizenship is not being used when accessing the internet. It is important that we teach our students the where, when and how's of technology as we incorporate technology into our classrooms to teach content. I feel strongly that if students learn this now, they will be better workers in the future.
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