My name is Jeremy Sisson and this is my weblog about technology and the internet. I am a freelance web developer, and I like to think and talk about Internet applications and communities.
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I’ve noticed that sometimes people fall into the trap of becoming an “employee”… perhaps they get bored and start calling it in. The job becomes a 9-5 thing. Where’s the challenge?!? What keeps you interested, and growing?
Rather than continuing to build your reputation as an employee, why not work at building your personal brand?
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From U.S. corporations massively read employee e-mail:
In its fifth-annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that large enterprises continue to incur risk from - and take action against - information leaks over outbound e-mail, as well as newer communications media such as blogs, message boards, media sharing sites and mobile devices.
Your company might be snooping through the email you send at work. So what do you do?
Someone in Comcast is running a twitter account “comcastcares“, which is a big step forward in engaging their customers, however, Comcast is running into problems… they’re being accused of filtering user connections, providing some poor service and such, but the internal employee who runs the twitter account has to bear the brunt of the social backlash.
My previous positions have been at organizations that never really trusted and respected their employees. Be in the office from 9-5 every day, telecommute only with special permission. They never trusted their employees enough to offer them these things.
In those positions I never felt good enough about the the organization to properly engage with it. After 5, I disconnected and that was it. They demand I be in 9-5, well then, the rest of the time is mine, don’t bother me. I’m not going to check my work email through the weekend, and no, you can’t have my cell phone number. I’ll see you on monday!
Now that I am in a new organization that offers these things, I am feeling like contributing more. I am not in demand after hours, but hey, they’re cool to me, so if something comes up on the weekend I can take care of it.
Treat your employees well, and they will work hard for you. Trust is an amazing thing.
I tried to purchase a ticket from GO Transit’s new machine this morning, here a few observations…
