
What social media in the workplace can teach your business
Marketing SuganoShare
What we know to be true about the traditional workplace has forever changed… and may never stop changing. We’re involved in what appears to be a never-ending process of establishing new norms and developing different exceptions.
And that’s okay. Change is how you, as a person, become better and how your business expands into something bigger and more modern. But sometimes, this can be hard for people to accept.
Take for instance, social media.
10 tips to keep your social media easy and fun
Once upon a time, social media was not suitable for the workplace. You could never pick up your phone and casually scroll through that endless feed of yours. If you did that, your boss would naturally assume your productivity is dead, your focus is dead, your commitment to the company is dead, and everything about you is dead to them.
But is all of that really true? Probably not. Well, except for that last bit.
RecruitLoop wrote an article that suggested when social media is allowed at the office, it can actually help attract top talent. That’s not all it can do, though. This allowance can help keep your morale high, your attrition rates low, and your competitive edge strong.
In fact, RecruitLoop says that workers are willing to work for less pay as long as they have social media by their side. They would even go so far as to turn down a job if social media was not allowed at the office, or… they’d simply find a way to work around it – which does nothing for your culture, your morale, or your productivity.
So what can we learn from this? A lot actually. Here are a two key concepts to keep in mind.