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Most professional settings would not have permitted these company chat boards in the first place.
by jonas21 7y ago
Most professional settings would not have permitted these company chat boards in the first place.
- adambyrtek 7y agoAre you really trying to argue that companies which for example use Slack (or a similar service) are "not professional"?
- jonas21 7y agoNo, I'm arguing that most large, "professional" companies would not have allowed employees to create create chat groups whose sole purpose was to discuss politics or any other non-work-related topic (whether on mailing lists, Slack, or whatever). In doing so, Google was treating its employees more like adults, which is the opposite of what a previous comment in the thread was suggesting.
- scarface74 7y agoHow did Google “treating employees like adults” work out? The only reason an employer goes to work is to make money. The only reason an employer hires someone is to make them money or to save them money. Bringing anything else into the workplace is an unnecessary distraction from both the employee’s and employer’s standpoint. I go to work to have money deposited into my account twice a month and go home to spend time with my family and friends. The more time I spend at work spending energy not doing work either I will be less effective or spend more time away from family/friends/hobbies to be effective at work.
- walshemj 7y agoI have worked at a large company that actually did that we had internal newsgroups at BT bt.misc And even externally the only thing that was verboten was the uk.telecom hierarchy - this was more to not encourage some of the internet kooks.