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"What if You Couldn't Have a Phone on Your Desk?"

Posted by Michelle Golden: "If you entered the professional workforce more than, say, ten years ago, you probably can't imagine an environment in which computer access was disallowed. 

Or imagine, twenty years ago, if using the telephone in your daily tasks was not permitted.

But what if you were expected by management to get your job done as efficiently and effectively as possible. 

Ludicrous, right?

Wouldn't you be thinking management was foolish to cut off access to the tools which you'd used in your daily life growing up and throughout your education years?

You'd be thinking management is not very bright or not very trusting--maybe both--and that they are definitely cutting off their collective nose to spite their face.

Both of these tools can also be used for "playing around" and not getting our work done. Being, yes, unproductive! But they can also enable us to get your job done exponentially faster than without them. 

Similarly, for years we've watched big morale problems stem from companies locking down internet, blogs, and IM access. It's because we now KNOW that these tools let us research and communicate better and faster than ever before...

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Source: Golden Practices, 11 December 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).