I always hear about employees in other industries IMing during work. Do bankers do that too? Or is there never any down time and you'd get in trouble doing that?
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No, it's generally traders.
If there is nothing really going, hell ya. Most firms ban IM indeed
Some people tell me it happens, usually in the morning though.
S&T communicate via IM most of the time
My shop has firm sponsored IMs for other parts of the company, but the bankers cannot have this program because it cannot be monitored like our emails. My understanding was that since they can't monitor it for FINRA, we are not allowed to use it. That being said, gchat works fine and I frequently use this as a form of inter analyst communication/scheming
gchat
what about BBM?
BBM is blocked on work blackberries. Gmail is also blocked at many banks.
Banning that shit is stupid. There's a million potential time wasters, you can't block them all. Figure out how to properly motivate your employees and they won't even want to waste time.
Agreed... but at my old firm it seemed like outside email, Facebook, online message boards/forums, etc were all blocked not necessarily because they are time wasters but more because they provide an avenue to send and receive info, attachments, data, etc that could not be monitored by their systems. Interestingly, twitter was not blocked (probably because of the 140 character limit?) and linkedin worked but you could not access your inbox to send/receive messages.
Every bank has the Windows interoffice communicator, so yes bankers use IM. If you're on a lev fin desk your bloomberg also has a chat function
All the time.
Office Communicator ftw
People block stuff? Is this high school?
All about the gchat.
Old job blocked everything beside thechive... not really sure why. Current job, blocks nothing but Espn...
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