Facebook introduced “Facebook People,” an area of the site that aggregates employees’ personal blog posts in a centralized area. The thoughts and opinions of the employees are on three different categories: “engineering,” “platform,” and life. If you click on the categories, you can see posts and brief introductions to the Facebook people (as well as their profile pictures).
There is a disclaimer, however, so Facebook covers itself in case any employee says something with which it disagrees.
“The entries below are written by Facebook employees. Employees express personal opinions that do not necessarily reflect opinions of Facebook, Inc. To comment or get more details on any of the postings, follow the link to an employee blog.”
MG Siegler from VentureBeat states, “It’s refreshing that Facebook is open to highlighting its employees’ ideas. That, along with its newly-stated goal to rewrite its terms of service in plain English instead of traditional legalese, could blaze a trail for other massively-used web companies in the future.” I agree with him in that it’s nice to see a company foster employee communication and sharing of opinions. Further, it’s nice that Facebook, which usually focuses externally and satisfying consumers is not turning internally to satisfy and engage its employees.
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