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Attention HR: Young workers demand Web 2.0

Information Week article “Younger Workers Demanding Web 2.0 Tech on the Job” talks about how Web 2.0 has become important part of social life for the new generation workers.

Our company has its own internal blogging and its interesting to see that the young hires and interns start blogging almost instantaneously. In some cases, I see them blog on their first day at work as soon as they get their own laptop. In fact, one hire started writing how boring the orientation training was - during new employee orientation!

It’s an interesting balancing act for organizations to provide infrastructure for blogging, social networking etc. and at the same time make sure that employees use it to improve productivity.How do you calculate the ROI of Web 2.0 at work? Will organizations be able to monitor privacy and security of information? How do you treat Intellectual Property (IP) of the organizations? These are some of the issues the company’s executives need to start addressing soon.

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Sunday, August 26th, 2007 at 9:57 pm and is filed under Knowledge Management, Web 2.0, Human Resource, IT Management, Collaboration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.