48% Of British Companies Have Banned Twitter At Work
A new survey of 2,500 British employers has revealed the impact the social media channels have made on businesses in the UK, although possibly not in the productive way you might think.
The research, conducted by PR firm Lewis Communications and IT firm HCL Technologies discovered that almost half of all British employers have banned Twitter and Facebook from the workplace, which perhaps suggests a continuing naivety of the benefits of social media for all businesses, and also raises questions about employee rights.
The study showed that 48 per cent of the UK companies polled have stopped employees sending tweets and status updates in the past 12 months, with 45 per cent of those surveyed doing so because they feared their business reputation was at stake.
HCL Technologies’ chief executive Vineet Nayar said: “It is quite remarkable that in this day and age, many employers are still putting their employees’ interests as a...
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