17% of employees are required to use personal social accounts for work

Re:17% of employees are required to use personal social acco... by mcherm on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:06PM (#6803805)

Hold on a sec... I'm calling BS on this.

I don't know what their experimental methodology is, but according to the article, 17% are REQUIRED to do write nice things about their employers in social media and another 27% are ENCOURAGED to do so. That's 47% or about half of all people.

That's just not true. Half of all people are NOT shilling for their employers on Facebook. Perhaps there is some small group in which this occurs, but I see almost no signs of it in my social circles, and honestly, do you see that? HALF of everyone?

I'm not dismissing the issue as unimportant, but I'm dismissing the data from the survey as clearly flawed or else applicable only to some special subgroup.

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Re:17% of employees are required to use personal social acco... by pyduan on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:24PM (#6803938)

44% actually. But I agree that this figures seems unrealistic.

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Re:17% of employees are required to use personal social acco... by spada on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:16PM (#6803873)

Agreed. Perhaps 47% of employees that work on university ave in Palto Alto :)

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Re:17% of employees are required to use personal social acco... by 001sky on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @04:40PM (#6804438)

I'm calling BS on this.

Agree...headline needs to be qualified "sampled" employees. There is no way I would generalize a small number to the larger population of employees (as in, US population), given surely the uneven distribution of this type of "work" requirement in terms of geography, industry, and job-level (etc).

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