Anyone told and/or made to use Yammer or Facebook workplace to 'stay in touch' with corporate communications from on high ?

I can't think of anything worse. When I leave work I log off and disconnect and don't give a rats ass about it.

I rarely work extra time since my contract doesn't say I have to. I don't stay constantly connected to work even out of work.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

No, certainly not.

I am now retired but my employer would have never done anything so stupid.

If for any reason they really needed contact anyone out of hours or premises, they would have used a telephone or perhaps e-post. This may have been necessary occasionally for staff working away from base, but only for genuine reasons connected with the work or the individuals.

"Corporate communications from on high" might be important, but most can wait for the employees' return to office. Very few are urgent.

Further, company communications, nationally, site-only or department-level, were always [i]only [/i]on the company's Int[i]ra[/i]net. Not the Internet, certainly not via Facebook or its ilk!

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Edited because:

Having posted the above I realised I had never heard of 'Yammer', so looked it up. Yet another application developed independently then bought by Microsoft. Presumably to further MS' monopoly and data-harvesting business!

butterflybaby75 · 46-50, F

@ArishMell Most people are not paid to be 'on call' 24/7 as part of the job. If not required via terms of the employment contract, disconnection happens at end of shift and reconnection doesn't occur until start of next shift.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@butterflybaby75 Emergency and military services apart, no, they are not.

Companies should not expect it either, except in a very few, very carefully-set situations. Certainly never "corporate communications"!