A survey released this week by Robert Half Technology of Menlo Park showed 54 percent of chief information officers said their companies prohibited their employees from using Facebook, MySpace and Twitter while at work.
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An additional 19 percent allowed employees to visit social networking sites for "business purposes only." Still, 26 percent of the CIOs said their firms allowed unrestricted or limited personal social networking use during work hours.
The results of the study sound consistent with other surveys that basically conclude that businesses are worried their employees are spending too much time tweeting and updating their status and not enough time on actual work.
In fact, this theme sounded too familiar.
A Chronicle story from 13 years ago this month, headlined "Companies Tighten the Web on Workers," told of how top firms were cracking down on employee use of the Internet during work hours.
History, of course, tells us how well that worked out.
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