SBI curb on facebook, twitter Rohit Khanna,TNN | Dec 8, 2014, 09.36 PM IST(TOI) You can have a facebook or Twitter profile in your real name, but be careful when you make a post or become member of any community. State Bank of India, the largest public sector lender in India has come out with a long not to do list for its entire employees active on social media. The State Bank of India has asked its employees to submit an undertaking for that and the set of guidelines will be effective from December 1. Around 2.5 lakh employees of the bank in India and abroad have to give an undertaking this month. Moreover, the perquisites of the employees are not likely to be processed from December onwards if the undertaking is not signed. According to an employee in the Bengal circle of the bank, they have to fill out a form for perquisites by the first week of each month. Unless the undertaking is ticked, perquisites cannot be processed, he said. State Bank of India, which is one quite active entity on social networking sites, has smelled a rat in some of the recent posts and comments. According to sources in the bank, some of the staff of the bank has been posting sensitive information on the social media, especially on facebook. There have been information leaks from bank employees regarding systems, processes and working of the core banking solution. In its set of guidelines the bank has said that if any of the employees create accounts or profiles which are other than the real name, then the employee will be penalised. In its set of guidelines the bank has said that employees of the bank cannot form or promote any group or community on any internet site using SBIs name or logo. The employees can become a member if the group is permitted by the bank authorities. What if employees have multiple profiles on the social networking sites? Can they be tracked? While the bank has not specified anything about multiple profiles already existing on the social networking sites, sources said that the employees will have to delete existing accounts other than those in their real names. Months back one of the employees of Bengal circle, who was making comments about the bank, was tracked down by the management with the help of cyber crime cell of Kolkata Police. SBI deputy MD S Srivastava said that the circular would not restrict employees to operate social sites at home to connect with friends. This is only to restrict employees to do something which is derogatory for our organisation, he added. About 2.5 lakh employees of SBI are able to comment or post on social networking sites but there is a rider attached to that. No employees should criticize the management of the bank, the circular issued by the banks deputy managing director JN Misra read. Employees are also barred from commenting or criticizing bank processes if they are not happy with that. But what is the bank afraid of? According to a senior SBI official, social media is accessible to public at large and comments on social media can hamper image of the bank.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:44:06 +0000
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