Open Communication - Moderated ;)

When one of the biggest IT companies of India, decided to allow its 100,000+ employees to blog on intranet, it did it with a lot of confidence.

The company had a lot of arrogance and over confidence, that its employees would write constructive stuff in the intranet social networking site.

HR department was proud announcing the initiative and touted the "Open Communication" culture and ability to take open criticism.

It also said in that announcement, that the unhappy employees, now venting on Facebook / Orkut would do so on the intranet.

Within hours of it being out, so many name calling, so many unhappy employees screaming, made it an instant depressant for the HR community.

The same HR team, that announced the Open Platform for communication, went back and said, the site will now be "Moderated" by HR team for posts.

And... more importantly, they reinforced, moderating the posts is not against open communication and transparency is not reduced in any way.

After all when a cat closes its eyes and drink milk, it thinks no one can watch it !!