Comments on: Corporate Matchmaking http://ericfaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/ Pithy Quote Goes Here Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:48:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: david http://ericfaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-6576 david Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:08:28 +0000 http://efaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/#comment-6576 well, you know how facebook verifies, right? they restricted it to colleges by verifying the domain name on the email account used to sign up. if you were hosting an off-MScampus site, it would be easy enough to do the same by verifying @microsoft.com or whatever. etc etc well, you know how facebook verifies, right? they restricted it to colleges by verifying the domain name on the email account used to sign up. if you were hosting an off-MScampus site, it would be easy enough to do the same by verifying @microsoft.com or whatever. etc etc

]]> By: Eric Faller http://ericfaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-6575 Eric Faller Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:57:56 +0000 http://efaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/#comment-6575 Yes, that is sort of what I was envisioning - just some sort of simple profile-listing site that you can use to meet new people. HR would definitely not allow it to be any sort of "official" site, but would they care if it was just a site run by some guy in his office? I'm not sure.. I'm sure there are all kinds of things they have to avoid for legal reasons, like discriminating based on marital status, etc. Yes, that is sort of what I was envisioning – just some sort of simple profile-listing site that you can use to meet new people. HR would definitely not allow it to be any sort of “official” site, but would they care if it was just a site run by some guy in his office? I’m not sure.. I’m sure there are all kinds of things they have to avoid for legal reasons, like discriminating based on marital status, etc.

]]> By: Angela http://ericfaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-6574 Angela Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:32:15 +0000 http://efaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/#comment-6574 BTW, HR would NEVER buy into this. However, you might be able to get away with creating some sort of social MS site like myspace. Employees can put up a profile with their interests and upload pics. I wonder if HR would have an issue with people posting whether or not they are single? Say we call it "http://MSNetworking," "http://MSFriends," "http://MSSocial" or something. You can have a link on each persons profile that allows people to meet up with you to discuss work or not. Something like "Would you like to meet me for a coffee break?" BTW, HR would NEVER buy into this. However, you might be able to get away with creating some sort of social MS site like myspace. Employees can put up a profile with their interests and upload pics. I wonder if HR would have an issue with people posting whether or not they are single? Say we call it “http://MSNetworking,” “http://MSFriends,” “http://MSSocial” or something. You can have a link on each persons profile that allows people to meet up with you to discuss work or not. Something like “Would you like to meet me for a coffee break?”

]]> By: Eric Faller http://ericfaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-6573 Eric Faller Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:28:30 +0000 http://efaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/#comment-6573 <p>That's a good point that we would definitely need to keep track of the company's policies about supervisors dating their employees. It could even be enforced by the software if we looked up in the address book and blocked people from seeing others below or above them.</p><p>But, I think it would probably not be too big of a problem because the point is really to introduce people to new people that they didn't know before. Presumably you already know who your supervisor/employee is, so you wouldn't be clicking on their profiles too much (this assumes the system didn't do 'auto-matching', which I think would be too hard to do right).</p> That’s a good point that we would definitely need to keep track of the company’s policies about supervisors dating their employees. It could even be enforced by the software if we looked up in the address book and blocked people from seeing others below or above them.

But, I think it would probably not be too big of a problem because the point is really to introduce people to new people that they didn’t know before. Presumably you already know who your supervisor/employee is, so you wouldn’t be clicking on their profiles too much (this assumes the system didn’t do ‘auto-matching’, which I think would be too hard to do right).

]]> By: Anonymous http://ericfaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/comment-page-1/#comment-6572 Anonymous Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:14:59 +0000 http://efaller.com/blog/2007/02/25/corporate-matchmaking/#comment-6572 First time commenter, long time reader... This idea seems logical but I would think that it could be a problem if someone hooks up with their supervisor. Such "cross-employment level" situations could end badly if the relationship goes sour. You might be able to just set up the site on your own and restrict its access to employees of a certain company (i.e. largecorp.corporatematch.com). Assuming you don't use company resources to run it, you should be free and clear. Its not a bad idea though... First time commenter, long time reader…

This idea seems logical but I would think that it could be a problem if someone hooks up with their supervisor. Such “cross-employment level” situations could end badly if the relationship goes sour.

You might be able to just set up the site on your own and restrict its access to employees of a certain company (i.e. largecorp.corporatematch.com). Assuming you don’t use company resources to run it, you should be free and clear.

Its not a bad idea though…

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