Simon Kang's article this week encourages LG employees to join Yammer. When company secrets are discussed on Yammer, how will we prevent them from getting to our competitors? When an employee leaves LG and goes to work for a competitor, can he/she still use Yammer to see what is happening inside LG? Will LG be buying a corporate account from Yammer so that LG can disconnect employees who leave the company? If so, who will be responsible for disconnecting them?
Hmmm. Let's see. Large corporations that currently embrace Twitter include Dell, Starbucks, JetBlue, The Home Depot, Whole Foods, HR Block, Best Buy, Ford, Samsung, Kodak, just to name a few. What, they don't have secrets too? LG has to figure out how to get past the "assumed guilty until otherwise determined" attitude about it's employees intentions. Unfortunately, the word trust is not in the LG vernacular, nor is balance or so it seems. Sad really.
This is not a question about trusting current LG employees, and I agree that more trust is needed. It is a question about trusting former LG employees who have left the company. They should no longer have access to inside LG information through Yammer.
The question is whether LG will be willing to spend money for a Yammer corporate account, or only use the free service. The free service does not allow LG to delete an employee when they leave the company.
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Simon Kang's article this week encourages LG employees to join Yammer. When company secrets are discussed on Yammer, how will we prevent them from getting to our competitors? When an employee leaves LG and goes to work for a competitor, can he/she still use Yammer to see what is happening inside LG? Will LG be buying a corporate account from Yammer so that LG can disconnect employees who leave the company? If so, who will be responsible for disconnecting them?
Hmmm. Let's see. Large corporations that currently embrace Twitter include Dell, Starbucks, JetBlue, The Home Depot, Whole Foods, HR Block, Best Buy, Ford, Samsung, Kodak, just to name a few. What, they don't have secrets too? LG has to figure out how to get past the "assumed guilty until otherwise determined" attitude about it's employees intentions. Unfortunately, the word trust is not in the LG vernacular, nor is balance or so it seems. Sad really.
This is not a question about trusting current LG employees, and I agree that more trust is needed. It is a question about trusting former LG employees who have left the company. They should no longer have access to inside LG information through Yammer.
The question is whether LG will be willing to spend money for a Yammer corporate account, or only use the free service. The free service does not allow LG to delete an employee when they leave the company.
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