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Unions will make sure you don't get fired for using Facebook
If you use Facebook at work, like most of the population out there, and your employer catches you, you could get disciplined. The Trades Union Congress in the UK has your back. The TUC has issued an acceptable Facebook for the workplace usage guide. Everyone knows that a little Facebook-ing can result in low productivity numbers for organizations, especially since social networking has been experiencing a rapid growth rate. Staff around the world have got their hands slapped for overusing the network, and there are even reports of employees being terminated due to their usage. The Union doesn't believe that cracking down on web tools is the answer, but employers and employees should work out sensible conduct guidelines.
Although Facebook can be seen as an important corporate tool with businesses using it to communicate corporate and social topics, it's hard to sometimes see the blurred line between business and pleasure usage.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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jdw242b said 5:00PM on 8-30-2007
NOT using FaceBook at work will ensure you don't get sacked also...
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James said 3:56PM on 9-04-2007
Maybe there should be a poll option for "Facebook, what's that?" I'm only vaguely aware...
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