I don’t really understand work social media groups/websites. I worked at a KFC for a while, and we had this weird Microsoft Facebook knockoff called yapper, there were occasional manager rants specific to our store and congratulations posts, but company wide was just weird. Mostly just memes and people begging for krushers back
Oh, Yammer, that’s the one. I never really used it much either, I don’t think I can get behind sending memes on a company platform monitored by your manager, fully tied to your actual identity. I had to use it for store news and such. I did some deep digging, sure hope they couldn’t see that. I went back years out of boredom and curiosity and found some juicy arguments. Seriously, who’s arguing with people over inconsequential things on a work social media??
I know, right? That can only end one of two ways: HR gets pissed or nobody cares. There’s no positives here. Your manager won’t promote you because you posted something insightful or funny, they care about numbers and how much they like you in person.
So yeah, I really don’t understand who that’s for.
We have an internal company site for posting relevant info (e.g. HR docs, processes, etc), as well as email if there truly is something relevant to the entire company (that’s incredibly rare)
I honestly don’t care that Betsy in Missouri has a dog if I live in Arizona; if I want to discuss things about a topic, I’ll do it on real SM, not internal company SM
I wasn’t clear on this. It’s more like, a community for keeping on top of a topic like LLM developments, or asking and answering questions concerning a software that’s used in the organization. It can also concern processes, but where pooling answers throughout several teams works best. It’s not a place for docs (that’s SharePoint’s role). An email isn’t the good channel as the ensuing conversation would clutter everyone’s mailbox.
Some people like to chat with colleagues. It’s also an opportunity for networking. Of course it’s not mandatory, so if it’s not interesting to you, just don’t go on the communities that are “for fun”.
I’m on it because it’s still the best way to network.
Sure, just don’t post stuff. Add people you meet at work, and use it to apply for jobs. Don’t use it as actual social media.
I don’t really understand work social media groups/websites. I worked at a KFC for a while, and we had this weird Microsoft Facebook knockoff called yapper, there were occasional manager rants specific to our store and congratulations posts, but company wide was just weird. Mostly just memes and people begging for krushers back
Yeah, we have one as well (yammer, probably same as yours), and pretty much nobody uses it, or at least I ignore it.
Oh, Yammer, that’s the one. I never really used it much either, I don’t think I can get behind sending memes on a company platform monitored by your manager, fully tied to your actual identity. I had to use it for store news and such. I did some deep digging, sure hope they couldn’t see that. I went back years out of boredom and curiosity and found some juicy arguments. Seriously, who’s arguing with people over inconsequential things on a work social media??
I know, right? That can only end one of two ways: HR gets pissed or nobody cares. There’s no positives here. Your manager won’t promote you because you posted something insightful or funny, they care about numbers and how much they like you in person.
So yeah, I really don’t understand who that’s for.
It has 2 good uses:
Way ahead of you.