{"id":690,"date":"2009-10-06T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T00:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=690"},"modified":"2016-06-07T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T13:20:25","slug":"employers-block-facebook-twitter-myspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/employers-block-facebook-twitter-myspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Half of Companies Block Facebook, Twitter &#038; MySpace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social network sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are blocked on over half ( 54% ) of corporate networks, according to a recent survey of Chief Information Officers that was conducted by Robert Half Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, this 54% represents the percentage of CIOs surveyed who say that their corporations <em>do not allow<\/em> use of popular social networks by employees for <em>any reason<\/em> while on the job.<\/p>\n<p>The officers were asked the following question: \u201cWhich of the following most closely describes your company\u2019s policy on visiting social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, while at work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CIOs&#8217; responded to the social network question as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Prohibited completely &#8211; 54%<br \/>\n&#8211; Permitted for business purposes only &#8211; 19%<br \/>\n&#8211; Permitted for limited personal use &#8211; 16%<br \/>\n&#8211; Permitted for any type of personal use &#8211; 10%<br \/>\n&#8211; Don&#8217;t know\/no answer &#8211; 1%<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roberthalftechnology.com\/PressRoom?pressRelease_5.request_type=RenderPressRelease&amp;pressRelease_5.releaseId=2531\">Robert Half Technology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social network sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are blocked on over half ( 54% ) of corporate networks, according to a recent survey of Chief Information Officers that was conducted by Robert Half Technology. Furthermore, this 54% represents the percentage of CIOs surveyed who say that their corporations do not allow use of popular [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/social-networks\/employers-block-facebook-twitter-myspace\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Over Half of Companies Block Facebook, Twitter &#038; MySpace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6002,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/6002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}