September 17, 2009
Thousands of British bosses are set to enforce 'Facebook breaks' in a bid to stop employees wasting time with this awful social media.
Well, that's according to a press release that dropped into Guru's inbox. Employment lawyers say an increasing number of firms want to take action against staff who they claim are being distracted by social networking websites.
They want to impose breaks, similar to smoking breaks, to limit the amount of time workers spend on these sites.
Giles Ridgeway, a consultant
at Employment Law Advisory Services, said he had been inundated by
bosses determined to clamp down on the new media curse.
"It would simply entail two five-minute breaks a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, to allow workers to log on. If they go on sites, such as Facebook at other times, staff will face disciplinary action."
Guru favours this hardline approach. But what if these Facebook and Twitter addicts are also smokers? Does that mean they get two, two five-minute breaks a day? And will employers be obliged to provide some kind of stop-Facebook-ing service to help their poor addicted staff quit the habit?
So many questions, so few answers. Guru is off to update his status to 'confused'.
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