Business Memo

Memo

To: Supervisor of Sprint

From: Stephanie Manqueros

Marketing project/ Program manager

Subject: Progress of employees

Date: September 9th, 2014

The purpose of this memo is to present the progress of the employees and their results towards the surveys on social media usage at work. I believe with results of the employees’ surveys we can determine a social media policy.

Summary

Internet based media has become an enveloping part of our lives that continues to grow in our culture. Unfortunately the usage towards social media has become a great issue as well as a constant distraction during work hours. Using the results of the surveys, we will determine if keeping the social media usage to a bare minimum during work hours should be highly enforced with exceptions of breaks, lunch breaks, and emergencies.

Discussion

Employees here at sprint are hardworking and friendly. However, social media usage at work can be distracting. The surveys that have been handed out, if answered honestly, have assisted us in obtaining accurate results concerning social media usage. We evaluated whether or not social media usage is a distraction, and possibly an expanding issue. It has been documented that employees have been caught posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube during work hours. Employees raised a point that the use of social media is personal. We are only evaluating social media use on company equipment or during paid company time. Although there have been debates, the company must also reduce un-filtered media exposure from personal postings of employees.

Through research and observation, this committee has concluded that some employees do not know where they should commit their time and assets. It seems with social media usage rising every year, it is almost becoming a social necessity. Even if it is seen as exercising freedom of speech by some team members (like surveys have suggested) others feared that the media usage has a...