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Personal Blogging at Work Increases Productivity - Susan Adams - Getting Ahead - Forbes

Personal Blogging at Work Increases Productivity - Susan Adams - Getting Ahead - Forbes


A study of internal corporate blogs shows that letting workers blog freely about both work and play, boosts productivity.
What if your employees sat around writing about their personal lives on your company’s internal blog? Like the worker who tapped out 700 words on hiring his wedding photographer (“You want to put these precious memories in the hands of someone you can trust”), or the employee who composed an 800-word blow-by- blow on his adventure at Six Flags (“I found myself swinging like a pendulum. Ding – dong- ding.”) Seems like a colossal waste of time, does it not?

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By SUSAN ADAMS