Ban Facebook at work, say grouchy corporate bosses

FACEBOOK SHOULD BE BANNED from the workplace, most network and security managers reckon.

A massive 74 per cent of security managers and 71 per cent of network managers, of the 250 who were surveyed, wanted their workers to be anti-social.

Nigel Hawthorn, Vice President of EMEA Marketing at Blue Coat Systems said he was “surprised at the depth of feeling expressed”.

It is always surprising when corporate lackeys express feeling, especially of some depth.

Blue Coat , which makes proxy server appliances used for WAN optimisation, content filtering and stuff commissioned the survey which was carried out by research outfit Rapid Research.

But another study, called The Hyperconnected: Here They Come!, found that, workers aged 24 or younger, consider unbridled access at work a given. The study, commissioned by telecom giant Nortel, and carried out by market analysis outfit IDC, polled 2,400 working adults across 17 countries.

IDC Canada managing director, Vito Mabrucco, said, “there's a lot of pent-up demand for using Web 2.0 tools in business”.

Nortel’s chief technology officer, John Roese cautioned, to those who try to ban Facebook from their offices: “good luck”. µ

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The Hyperconnected Study