Thanks!

The best thing is to balance between having standards, rules and regulations that govern the business and make sure that no violations or negligence are committed and at the same time avoid making them too much or too meticulous that they become chains around your employees.

Then the question comes how could it be possible when your Organization has gone beyond the bounds? Then some may say that you need to have fences around.. This argument will go on..

But I view the question in a different way. The question here should NOT be why fencing, instead ‘how you are fencing’.

Fences – or let’s call them rules – are useful, maybe not for all of your employees, but in general, they will get you more (formal) output. Probably you will see that when you notice how you can easily lose money because most people (that you hire) are lazy.

Come on, Ugliest things are often done in the prettiest ways..

Thank you!

Unfortunately, most of companies care more about cosmetic stuff rather than real work..

The point of social networks is critical and two fold. From one side, yes it can be a waste of time for people who can’t manage their time but it can also be a tool for doing business, increasing revenue and cutting costs.

I hate it when managers want to check every email you send and approve every move you do…this really kills the sense of ownership and responsibility.

Too many rules around the work place is a also a killer… when to come, how to dress, how to use the phone, when to eat, how to use the photocopier,…..too many restrictions and how tos suffocates people and kills their initiative

I know a GM who tells every employee what exactly to say to a customer when he calls him over the phone and he goes on to dictate on him the whole conversation. to the extent that he says: if he tells you so and so, you should say so and so and if he says this you say that…..what do you say about that?

If the culture in the workplace is such that you can’t put faith in your employees to know when it is worktime and when it is playtime, why wouldn’t that likewise signal that senior level executives cannot truly trust them with tasks and creative flow, either? Moreover, why wouldn’t this also mean that the projects/tasks are already doomed in such an atmosphere in the first place? I recognise that this will seem to be a straw-man argument for social websites, but I also believe in trust in workplace governance.

I am not totally with allowing all the social networks at work, the social networks are time wasters for many people, a lot of people fail to manage their priorities and their schedules in the first place, and so banning is the first option that companies use, if the company was delivery based there wouldn’t be a problem.

Again, it is all about culture and what the employer thinks of the employees!

BTW, If you want to cut the fences you simply can use a web proxy and so you will turn to be a wolf rather than a sheep

Corporates waste most of their time on fencing their employees in turn making employees into bonded labor than a potential contributor to the company.

I might be a bit blunt but I feel most of these corporate guys do bonded labour in a more socially accepted way.

I agree completely! All too often we put up fences and do not realize we are doing so and the negative impact these fences can have. As you have stated, the impacts are three fold; the creation of sheep, wolves and high turnover none of which are productivity enhancers.

If we focus on removing the fences, the productivity will naturally rise and our projects have a better chance of success as a result. The worst case if we have happier employees.

Thanks for posting.