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• Facebook 'breaks' backed by bosses

  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... Posted Sep 17 2009, 08:52 AM by Guru Filed under: workers, internet, Facebook, social network, breaks, smoking

• How to lose your job via Facebook

  Read More... Posted Aug 11 2009, 12:07 PM by Guru Filed under: internet, Facebook

• Facesquatting - a new way to make yourself unemployable

  This week's new word is the deeply unpleasant 'Facesquatting' (a term Guru advises not Googling in an open plan office), coined as a result of timewasters' favourite Facebook 's decision to let users give their profile pages simple addresses. Most users simply wanted to bag their own name - facebook.com/joebloggs for example. But... Posted Jun 16 2009, 11:26 AM by Guru Filed under: jobs, internet, Facebook, social network

• Facebook sacking for Swiss slacker

  Like the number of friend requests you reject from the weird and unloved, the number of people in Facebook-related sackings continues to rise. A Swiss woman has been fired after her employer spotted she was using Facebook moments after claiming she was suffering from a migraine and too ill to use a computer. The unnamed woman told her firm Nationale... Posted May 05 2009, 04:51 PM by Guru Filed under: workers, internet, social networking, Facebook, swiss

• Facebook birthday no cause for celebration

  Happy Birthday to Facebook! Yes, the scourge of workplace productivity was five years old yesterday. What did the UK's office workers do before Facebook existed? Some work, probably. All manner of surveys in the past couple of years have shown that workers waste hours of their employers' time every week on Facebook, sending out friend requests... Posted Feb 05 2009, 01:50 PM by Guru Filed under: HR, workers, employers, internet, Facebook, productivity

• Quick clicks for your Friday afternoon - 21/1/2009

  This week's top five HR-related web treats for your Friday afternoon: 5. The return of child labour 4. 'HR-bot' to monitor staff on Facebook 3. Jobs that pay more for working less 2. Unicycle butcher OH hazard 1. Why Google employees quit Read More... Posted Jan 23 2009, 01:30 AM by Guru Filed under: jobs, work, human resources, Google, Facebook, quit, unicycle, child labour, social network, flexible working, pay, butcher

• The internet: will it catch on?

  Guru received a news release this morning alerting him to the fact that 'cyber cynicism' was gripping the UK. Yours Truly almost threw it away as soon as he saw the word 'cyber' - what interest could that be to anyone? Still, there wasn't much else going on so Guru thought he would have a look through it. Read More... Posted Dec 03 2008, 07:18 AM by Guru Filed under: breasts, data, internet, Google, Facebook, Chartered Management Institute