Spotted in Web Ink Now:

It's really hard to tell an employee to quit their job right now because their company bans social media (economic reasons), but I would recommend that they start "exploring other opportunities" or network with other professionals, regardless. How managers behave directly impacts the experience younger workers have with their company. If managers don't allow social networks, then it's very conflicting and young employees will start to lose enthusiasm for working in that corporate environment and leave sooner rather than later."

This made me think back to when I was younger - I started off my tech career in one of the pieces of the Defense Department here in the US. We worked in a closed network environment; back then (the 80's), that wasn't terribly relevant. Heck, at the time, the network I worked on was more advanced than anything in the private sector.

Flash forward to now. I can't imagine being 27 and working in that kind of closed environment. In parts of the government, it makes perfect sense to be closed off, but it's got to be hard to attract young people in. I wonder what implications the need for being closed will have on the hiring process as we continue to go forward?

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