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While the masses have turned to social media for personal endeavors, many employees are shying away from
using outlets like Facebook and Twitter professionally, particularly when it comes to receiving information
about their health benefits, according to a survey by the
National Business Group on Health.
Of the 1,500 U.S. employees surveyed, 47 percent said
they use Facebook daily or weekly for personal use, and
45 percent said they use text messaging daily or weekly
for personal reasons.
However, 7 percent of respondents said they use
Facebook and 16 percent of respondents said they use
text messaging for business purposes. Further, about 3
in 4 respondents said they had no interest in receiving
health benefit information via Facebook; and about 80
percent of respondents said they had no interest in using
Twitter for such information.
Virtually all respondents said they would prefer to
receive health benefit information via the postal service
to their homes or via e-mail.
SOCIAL MEDIA PHOBIA?
>> For more information, visit http://www.business grouphealth.org.
QUOTABLES
“There is only one success”—
to be able to spend your life in
your own way.”
—CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, AMERICAN JOURNALIST
“Education is not the filling
of a pail, but the lighting of a
fire.”
—WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, IRISH POET
“Do not take life too seriously;
you will never get out of it
alive.”
—ELBERT HUBBARD, AMERICAN WRITER
“Life is pretty simple: You do
some stuff. Most fails. Some
works. You do more of what
works. If it works big, others
quickly copy it. Then you do
something else. The trick is
the doing something else.”
—LEONARDO DA VINCI, ITALIAN ARTIST AND INVENTOR
“ Write injuries in dust,
benefits in marble.”
—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, FOUNDING FATHER
“To climb steep hills requires
a slow pace at first.”
—SHAKESPEARE, ENGLISH DRAMATIST, PLAYWRIGHT
“If you want to know what a
man is really like, take notice
of how he acts when he loses
money.”
—SIMONE WEIL, FRENCH PHILOSOPHER
“ Wealth consists not in having
great possessions but in
having few wants.”
—EPICURUS, GREEK PHILOSOPHER
www.irem.org/jpm 7 jan.feb 2011
