Dallas City Hall Lassoes Employees' Facebook Use

The Associated Press reported that more than 20 employees at Dallas City Hall were reprimanded or forced to attend counseling following a probe of Facebook use during work hours.

One of the affected workers, Cesar Baptista, an assistant director in the water department, told AP he opened his Facebook page in the morning and neglected to log out of it. He was found to have Facebook open for 68 hours during a three-month period.

Dallas city manager Mary Suhm told AP employees are forbidden from conducting personal business during work hours, adding that new guidelines for social media use are forthcoming and saying, “Computer equipment belongs to the company, and technically, your time belongs to the company, too, while you’re there.”

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