I was recently surprised, listening to a someone in IT [for a very large corporation], who mentioned that their big employee initiative was to add support for IM.
This was not a long time ago, this was less then a year ago, and I found myself horrified that they consider this new.
I am hopeful that IT is learning its lesson and, as you say, realizing that controlling progress by creating bans will not work and will ultimately make them look dumb.
Jake
· 2 years ago
It's not just looking dumb anymore; it's costing companies. I don't think we can blame IT; they will always take the conservative approach, which is correct for IT. It's management's failure to take a forward-looking stance, rather than accepting the knee-jerk "ban everything" reaction.
Quoth The Dead Milkmen, "we gotta blow up those things we don't understand".
Jake
Noons
· 2 years ago
Jake,
too right, mate. Top post!
Fabio Seixas
· 2 years ago
The other day someone told me that their company bans tinyurl.com. Don't ask me why.
Jake
· 2 years ago
Weird, maybe that has to do with obscuring the URL, if it's internal. I'm interested to hear the official story of why, would be educational. Thanks, nice addition to the conversation. Jake
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This was not a long time ago, this was less then a year ago, and I found myself horrified that they consider this new.
I am hopeful that IT is learning its lesson and, as you say, realizing that controlling progress by creating bans will not work and will ultimately make them look dumb.
Quoth The Dead Milkmen, "we gotta blow up those things we don't understand".
Jake
too right, mate. Top post!
Thanks, nice addition to the conversation.
Jake