7 May 2008 462 views No Comment

Nick Abrahams head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications law practice at Sydney law firm Deacons, has passed on his company’s recent survey showing that corporate recruitment efforts can be hampered by restricting employees’ Social Media access.
Survey respondents said that if given a choice between two jobs equal in all other respects, they would choose an employer which allowed access to these sites over one which did not.
Deacons’ research provides a snapshot of Internet use in Australian workplaces. Their survey found 62 per cent of workers have access to the Internet from work and of these:
14 per cent use it at some time to access social networking sites.

20 per cent said their employer blocked access to social networking sites
while

57 per cent said their employer allowed it (23 per cent did not know).
 

76 per cent of workers who use the Internet at work could see a benefit to their organisation in allowing access to social networking sites.