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Friday is Facebook Day

Remember when the asinine office policy was to wear a Hawaiian shirt on Fridays? Serena Software, some boring company in San Mateo, has begun a policy of "Facebook Fridays," where the entire 900-person company is forced to spend an hour on Facebook, updating their profiles, throwing virtual sheep at each other, and, hopefully finding potential Serena employees while they're trolling for hotties. God, what is this economy coming to? Companies that force their employees to share information on a social network? Doomed to fail.

5:04 PM on Fri Nov 2 2007
By Megan McCarthy
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  • These stories are sounding all too similar to those that preceded the 2000 crash. What's next? Replacing corporate email with a twitter account for every employee?

  • Image of sample032 sample032 at 05:33 PM on 11/02/07 *

    Lately, I've been lurking on Craigslist for jobs at startups, but despite their VC backing, most of the startups lack a sustainable business model. Sorry, but I'd like the potential to still be employed in 6 months.

  • Doesn't Denton already make all Gawker employees do this?

  • Thats kinda dumb...

  • i think it's officially over guys. lock up your daughters!

  • Apparently, this was posted a while back...but I thought I'd clear the air up anyway.

    As a Serena employee, I can tell you that we are NOT forced to do this. Essentially, what this was all about was a low cost means to learn/embrace web 2.0 technologies and the impact they are having on businesses both now and the future. In addition, it provided a means to connect in a fun way with the large amount of employees that we don't see regularly because of the distribution of our offices.

    The link you reference in no way states that we're FORCED to do anything, rather; what we are encouraged to do is take that hour of company time and spend towards Facebook as a sanctioned company event.

    Here's what I find hilarious, there are all kinds of companies BANNING their employees from sites like Facebook, our company embraces it and you call it dumb, but what does that make the other company's, genius? Perhaps you might reconsider after educating yourself on what Andrew McAfee has to say regarding the subject, Andrew is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School.

    [blog.hbs.edu]

    Cheers!

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