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IM best-practices in the workplace
Brian McCaffrey | Sep 28 2007
What is IM used for in the workplace? My office mates and I figured out this week that we have an IM client on our corporate workstations. Novices to the world of corporate IM, we don't really know what it's used for. I've used IM clients at home, of course, but never at work and we're all at a bit of a loss on how this would be useful, if at all. A quick session of searching 43f reveals that most of the discussion up until this point has been about managing the distractions of IM and managing your coworkers' expectations of your responses. But I'm wondering, what's IM used for in business? So far in my office, people have started chat sessions with entire work teams present online and left the session open all day. Team members will post questions or comments or requests to review edits on shared documents. In one of our groups, the director has moved some of his communication to the chat room, with the expectation that his team members will read this message during the next hour or two. Is this a typical use? How about one-on-one chats with colleagues? Tell me what IM looks like at your workplace. 46 Comments
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 Wide rangeSubmitted by matt on September 29, 2007 - 12:43am.
I'm in an academic environment, and we use IM for a wide range of communication -- everything from extensive collaboration meetings (which, oddly enough, are usually conducted one-on-one in sequence rather than in chat rooms) to quick questions to code copying/pasting to notification of new papers and information... In fact, because we do quite a bit of coding in the workplace, I've discovered that even in our cube group we tend to communicate about academic and professional topics more often through IM than through personal interaction. Typing that out, it sounds a little sad. But - it works. » POSTED IN:
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