Social Media in Workplace

Social media can be powerful communication tool for employees, helping them to collaborate, share ideas and solve problems. Social media can contribute towards improvement of workplace relationships as it can encourage casual conversations between colleagues and help build good rapport. Through social media, employees can ask questions and solve work problem. They can use social media as a form of communication to discover and deliver job-related information. If employees can interact more, it strengthens and builds strong personal relationships between co-workers. Moreover, stronger relationship among employees leads to productive team works.

Social media can build a strong relationship in the workplace. However, if not used effectively, use of social media at workplace can create many negative effects that can destroy employees’ professional career and can pose risk to company’s productivity. Social media can be dangerously addictive, so there is a possibility that employees wasting lots of time on doing unnecessary things on social media. This can affect company’s productivity. Apart from that, using social media at workplace means possibility of privacy invasion.

Social media can be helpful if used carefully at workplace. Following are the few etiquette which we can follow at workplace:

• -          Everyone needs to be polite and professional with their posts.
• -          Share only useful contents and avoid sharing malicious gossip and contents.
• -          One need to report negative, suspicious, and harmful content to the authorities.
• -          Avoid sharing personal information.
• -          Everyone needs to adhere to organisation’s social media policy.