Facebook: Stealing our money!!?!??!
Because the average member of staff who has access to a PC is spending six minutes a month on Facebook, Portsmouth City Council have decided to ban access to it.
Predicatably, this has been welcomed by The Taxpayers Alliance:
The Taxpayers’ Alliance said the move would stop the “waste of public cash”.
Mark Wallace, from the group, added: “It is sad that it has reached a point where councils need to ban staff from Facebook.
“But people are employed to work hard for the taxpayer and this is clearly a waste of public money.”
Interestingly, the six-minutes-per-month-on-average figure is further qualified:
The council stressed it was unable to determine whether staff had been accessing Facebook in break times or before or after work, which had been allowed.
No mention of any positive benefit from the use of social networking then? If any organisation if ripe for The Interactive Charter, it’s Portsmouth City Council.
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