Mini-workshop: Social media - Issues of Internet use in workplace and solutions

Should employers curb social media, e-mail, and other internet use?

1. Social Media
Should employers curb social media, e-mail, and other
internet use?
Group 6
Mini-worshop

2. Group 6
Nguyễn Khánh Linh
Nguyễn Thu Hà
Ngô Quốc Việt
Nguyễn Thị Ánh
Nguyễn Phương Anh

3. Workplace abuse of Internet browsing
Company crackdown on Internet use
For employees
Employee monitoring
I. Issues of Internet use in
workplace
1.
2.
II. Solutions
1.
2.
Main content
Part 1
Part 2 Activities
Presentation

4. Workplace abuse of Internet browsing
I. Issues of Internet use in
workplace
1.
Workplace abuse of Internet browsing
means accessing the internet for leisure
activities during work hours.
Definition
Online shopping Using social media accounts
Watching movies and
television shows
Reading electronic books
and magazines

5. Advantages Disadvantages
Personal use of the
internet at the workplace
should be allowed but to
an extent.
The use should be
monitored to avoid any
undesirable
consequences.

6. I. Issues of Internet
use in workplace
2. Company crackdown on
Internet use

7. 2.1 Benefits
The computers are the company's
property, we believe that they
should be allowed to be monitored.
It provides evidence when there is
misuse.
To protect the company from
lawsuits, employees should be
warned when they are being
monitored.
To prevent equipment breakdowns,
increase work efficiency.

8. 2.2. Drawbacks
Benefits to allowing Internet use at
work:
Frequent breaks for employees – to
be more productive
Social media is part of daily life

Building a fun work culture –
create happy and dedicated
employees to give 110% in return

9. Internet access allowance for personal
use
II. Solutions
1.
Employee happiness -> boosting productivity
Inexpensive communication
Online access to a lot of knowledge
Making it easier for management to do
surveillance and work supervision.

10. II. Solutions
2. Ethics on employee monitoring
Company culture, productivity, and retention:
Being secretly tracked
=> think that lack confidence
=> diminish morale and decrease production
=> it's vital to let employees know monitoring
techniques and reasons.
Legal factors:
Private employee data, such as health records or
bank account information, may mistakenly be
recorded

11. Improved employee productivity
Increased employee engagement and
retention
Optimized business processes
Reduced operational compliance risk
Pros:
Cons:
Employee privacy concerns
=> Lack of employee trust
=> Disengagement
II. Solutions
3. Employee monitoring
When you use the right workforce analytics software you get the best of both worlds —
employee data right from the source to help you generate data-driven insights AND an
approach to monitoring that doesn’t compromise trust.

12. Activity 1
Guess the
keywords

13. Keywords

Social Media
Crackdown
Employee monitoring
Privacy concerns
Compliance risks
Internet abuse
Private data

14. Activity 2

Lucky
envelope

15. Activity 2

Lucky
envelope
A person who takes a lucky envelope
will make a sentence with keywords
from activity 1.
Next, that person will give it to another
person, and they continue to make a
sentence to make a meaningful story.
The last person who can tell whole story
again will get that lucky envelope.

16. Social Media
Crackdown
Employee monitoring
Privacy concerns
Compliance risks
Internet abuse
Private data
In the working hour, the manager found
out that Linda is surfing Shopee, an
online shopping website.
Activity 2

Lucky
envelope

17. Social Media
Crackdown
Employee monitoring
Privacy concerns
Compliance risks
Internet abuse
Private data
John, a manager of a company, has
installed secretly a track system to
monitor what employees do in work
hours.

Activity 2

Lucky
envelope

18. Social Media
Crackdown
Employee monitoring
Privacy concerns
Compliance risks
Internet abuse
Private data
When surfing webs on the company
laptop, Jessica accidentally clicks a
strange link, which leads to the loss of
data on the company computer.
Activity 2

Lucky
envelope

19. Workplace abuse of Internet browsing
Company crackdown on Internet use
For employees
Employee monitoring
I. Issues of Internet use in workplace
1.
2.
II. Solutions
1.
2.
Summary