Comments on: Job Opportunities. Bloggers Need Not Apply.

By: dt

dt — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:54:39 +0000

Interesting stuff! I’ll have to agree with you; freedom of speech should have its limits. In the US, its against most company regulation now for workers to blog during working hours.

As for evaluating workers by reading their blogs, I guess potential employers are ‘evolving along with the changing times’

I still think its a bit far fetched though. Personally, I don’t mince my private life with my business life, but someone reading my blog might think I’m psychotic. So that method has a potential of backfiring, in that employers might actually miss out on productive workers (such as myself, hehehe…)

By: kayode muyibi

kayode muyibi — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:43:53 +0000

You have a good point there, but then again you shouldnt forget the fact that the internet can cause a lot of damages, because virtually everybody reads it. Anonymous complain box in a working environment would be great. But blogging about it is not good for the companies image.

And infact i wouldnt allow my employees to blog about the wrongdoings of the company in any aspect. Rather i would prefer them raising issues that bother them in my companies weekly meetings. The internet remember is a global library. Your customers, your potential ones, and your competitors are reading it.

Freedom of speech shouldnt just be abused, especially when damages can be caused.

By: dannyFoo

dannyFoo — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:36:16 +0000

When bosses don’t listen and workers prefer not to talk to their superiors, you end up with cases like this. It isn’t fair that the boss wouldn’t understand. I think the bosses soon should use the personnel’s blog as a tool to find what’s lacking or worst committed in the office by the personnel then just read how the personnel hates work or something.

Cheers.