Social media network at offices

Topic : Some companies block their employees from using social media networks and websites such as Facebook. Do you think managers should trust employees to use time wisely, or do you think it is smart of companies to block access to some sites? Provide reasons and examples to support your opinion.

Nowadays, many offices apply strict rules on workers, some of them even forbid their employees from using social media networks and websites such as Facebook. In fact, this helps workers to pay attention highly to their duties. Supervisors and managers worry that those websites can stop their workers from finishing assignments and starting conversations with friends. It may reduce effective hours in the working environment and disturb other workers doing on processes. They understand perfectly the drawbacks of being neglected which can lead to negative feedback from customers, deadline lateness, profit recession of a company, ...

In my perspective, managers shouldn't trust employees to use time wisely, because this decision can be seen as a threat to the whole company's profit and work efficiency but blocking access to those websites completely is not necessary. Due to the development of the internet and social media networking, it couldn't be denied that social media websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, .. do not only act as entertaining tools, they are places to find the potential costumers. They can be a very effective environment for users especially businessmen to explore and develop relationships with consumers. Base on the experience that app developers provided, buyers can communicate with sellers, be notified of the latest trend or products, promotions, ... They can also write comments, reviews, express their feeling or opinions on products helping suppliers aware of their mistake and how to provide a better service. There are a lot more advantages of social media providing to industries, more and more people are using them to shopping, finding feedback, consulting providers for products' information, ... Customers require a more quickly and convenient purchasing methods which are now provided excellently by social media networks. Through these websites, thousands of questions and reviews appear just by clicking a button, thousands of questions for providers are sent by potential consumers. Workers should always be online in order to post answers, new contents and solve problems.

Managers should only forbid their employees from chatting and doing their entertaining activities by blocking accesses by personal accounts or allow workers to use these sites at specific hours. Prohibitions create a more stressful working atmosphere - one of the most common reasons for lowering their working efficiency. Social media networks should be utilized as a modern type of market and connection between producers, business and consumers, ... Depend on the final result of business activities, fields and concept of duties, managers can create a suitable solution for using social media networking. In conclusion, blocking social media sites is not considered a good solution to improve profits. On the other hand, It can be counterproductive. Allowing employees to use it with supervisors and logical restrictions is seen as a better way to help increase not only revenue but also working spirit.