The Future of Blogging From Cubicles

Posted on April 22, 2005

Will future company policies forbid blogging while on the job? We first raised the question last week in this blog entry which discusses Mark Sahm's "Blogging on Company Time?" post on Blogcritics.org.

The blogging trend is so new (to non techies) that companies have not yet added anything about it to their company policy. It seems unlikely that they would want people to be doing any other kind of work during office hours. If companies do revise their policies to ban blogging while on the clock then what happens to the blogosphere?

For many blogging may become a hobby that you have to do at night or at lunch. There are certainly plenty of writers who have built their careers this way -- working a regular job and then writing on breaks and at night.

The NewPRWiki lists some of the blogging and work articled published so far -- but most of it has to do with blogging about your employer not blogging while working for your employer.