Good..
..they're there to work not chat to their mates.
Twitter is fine for civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions but Facebook is strictly banned, the Minister for Employment Chris Grayling ruled in a response to a written question by Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson. As well as tweeting, Work & Pensions department staff are permitted to upload employment information and make …
for some workers at the DWP surely access to FB could be useful? Presumably the fraud investigators could find it useful in checking up on suspected cheats? Some people are dumb enough to allow unrestricted access to their info, and any posts about how bad work is, how they enjoyed running a marathon etc. could be used to haul them up in front of a judge?
I worked in a Jobcentre for a couple of years and access to Facebook and other social networking sites was blocked throughout the time I worked there. Many private sector IT departments block access to similar sites.
Civil Service staff are allowed internet access for their own use in their own time.
Individual Jobcentre Plus Offices are using Twitter. They post vacancies and other snippets of useful employment stuff. They do their job, and Twitter isn't just for organising riots. This seems to be a series of initiatives at a grass-roots level; the official Jobseekers Direct site imperiously makes things hard for them, in terms of links and so forth. I help where I can. On Twitter? look for 'JCP', and for my modest efforts in this direction 'JCPM'.