The Uber-Connected Organization : Harvard Business Review article

HBR has a really interesting article talking about how companies can directly benefit by enabling their employees to participate in social media "passive connectivity".  In fact, it's even more than enabling - its accommodating.  The consensus is that the workforce that will replace Baby Boomers - will expect it.  "Has blocking Facebook today become the equivalent of denying an employee access to a phone at work 40 years ago, or email 20 years ago?".  I actually remember - quite vividly - corporate policy of no personal phone calls at work, unless it is an emergency.  The Millennial Generation will be almost half the workforce as early as 2014, so companies need to contemplate how they will (if not already) integrate this into their corporate planning.  "Those born between 1977 and 1997 - the ones you need to hire to replace the retiring boomers - are networked 24/7...".  To read the whole article, and reader comments, go to

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2009/11/the_uberconnected_organization.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-MA