Survey: Employers are banning Facebook, Twitter

Facebook and Twitter may be popular social networking sites everywhere but at the office.

A new survey finds that employers are increasingly blocking the social networking sites for their employees. The research, by ScanSafe, a provider of SaaS Web security, found that three quarters of companies surveyed are blocking social networking more frequently than online shopping, weapons, alcohol, sports or email.

"In recent months, employers are obviously wising up to the dangers and negative impact on productivity linked to certain sites, and more and more of our customers have chosen to block social networking, online banking and webmail," Spencer Parker, director of product management at ScanSafe told CSOonline.com.

ScanSafe said this move may be due to security concerns and decreased productivity when employees are too busy with Web 2.0 to work.

For more details on social media bans at the office:
- check out this CSOonline.com article

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