{"id":897,"date":"2003-11-01T18:54:34","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T18:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/11\/01\/iming_at_work.html"},"modified":"2003-11-01T18:54:34","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T18:54:34","slug":"iming_at_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/11\/01\/iming_at_work.html","title":{"rendered":"IMing at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/cacm\/\">CACM Newstrack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent study of 300 firms in the U.S. and Britain- the world&#8217;s two largest instant messaging markets- found that foul language, gossiping, and office gripes are commonplace in IM missives; in fact, rarely are they used for actual business-related functions. Over 65% the office workers surveyed used IM for personal reasons during work hours; nearly 80% admitted to gossiping about coworkers; and 64% slammed or schemed against management. Almost one-third of the respondents admitted to making &#8220;sexual advances&#8221; over IM in the workplace. &#8220;While (IM) has proven itself as a productive business tool, our research validates that its free-flowing and unmonitored nature is creating enormous legal liabilities, and compliance and productivity issues for organizations worldwide,&#8221; said Steve Mullaney, of Blue Coat Systems, a California-based secure proxy appliance vendor who conducted the survey. The findings also showed U.K. respondents are more blatant in their IM usage than their tamer U.S. counterparts, primarily because 71% of the U.S. workers believed (correctly) that their IMs could be traced.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t all communication channels far and away more frequently used for gossip (i.e. network structure maintenance)?  I mean, this seems to represent F2F too, thus should it be surprising that it&#8217;s occurring on IM too?  Of course, i doubt that they&#8217;ll kill F2F in the workplace, while they may kill IM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the CACM Newstrack: A recent study of 300 firms in the U.S. and Britain- the world&#8217;s two largest instant messaging markets- found that foul language, gossiping, and office gripes are commonplace in IM missives; in fact, rarely are they used for actual business-related functions. Over 65% the office workers surveyed used IM for personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}