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Futbalfantic

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Does anyone here work somewhere with a employer run discussion board?

What does it look like? How stringent of rules? Who moderates it and are they paid for their time? Overtime duties or apart of their job description?
 
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They have one where I work. 400,000 employees. Huge waste of time and space. About 1/3 of the company is useless anyway, so not really an issue to find some useless people to manage it, and there is now a how department devoted to it. It gives them all a place to congregate and brag on their uncomplishments.
 
I work in a 600 employee agency. We have set up an unofficial facebook page for lost items and shift swaps. I think it would be better to have an official channel for that, general discussion board, and a place to post quickly changing information.

@jeepinmatt Is there any putative actions for things posted on the forum? What is the primary use for it?
 
Futbalfantic said:
I work in a 600 employee agency. We have set up an unofficial facebook page for lost items and shift swaps. I think it would be better to have an official channel for that, general discussion board, and a place to post quickly changing information.

@jeepinmatt Is there any putative actions for things posted on the forum? What is the primary use for it?
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No idea. I've seen several posts that would be considered offensive because it was contrary to the progressive agenda that the company likes to push, but no idea if any action was taken. There are a lot of announcements about people actually doing their jobs and other participation award kind of stuff. New order announcements, quarterly results, etc. The useful stuff would be more effective as a mass email, considering we already redundantly get it in a mass email.
 
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