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UK vs Facebook

16 October 2008 3 comments

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It seems that British employers don’t look too kindly on social networking in the office. Apparently 35% of companies here have official restrictions in place on accessing sites like MySpace and Facebook during work hours, compared to only 17% in France and Germany and 16% in Italy. We can’t help being a sociable society can we?

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Bob Ford Vice President at Barcays Bank plc

16 October 2008

I find it interesting that the business equivalents of Facebook/My Space; LinkedIn, Plaxo, Naymz etc are generally available.

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Siddharth Udani Client Partner at Consulting

16 October 2008

Am surprised that its not 100% in most countries! May be Linked-in could be an exception for 'professional' networking :-)

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A Finextra member

17 October 2008

Isn't "social" networking supposed to be done out of office hours ?:)

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Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

22 October 2008

I'm guessing all these respondents all read the "Inane middle management tips for Dummies" Manual. I am sure there is some 20th century version of 'Let's ban Facebook' box ticking regarding the telephone or email.

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