Avoid Putting Employee Information on Your Public Website
Focusing your public website on information for the public – not on information specific to your company’s employees – is a best practice for managing your company’s website. Use intranets or extranets to provide information for your employees.
Why It’s Important:
• Real estate on your public website – particularly the homepage – is valuable and should be focused on the most important needs of the public, not of company employees.
• It can confuse the public to post information intended for employees on your public site.
By focusing on information for the public — rather than employees — you will help the public find what they need more efficiently and improve your services to them.
How to Implement
• If your company’s public website has content that is intended only for your company’s employees, move the content to an intranet or to an extranet, with password protection.
• If your company or organization doesn’t have or cannot acquire an intranet or extranet, then work to put employee information in a separate, clearly labeled part of your website. This will show the public that the information is not intended for them.
• If your website has content that is valuable to both the public and employees, it’s fine to post that information on the public website.
Compiled by Roberto Espinoza and Patricia Espinoza from CPC Computer Consultants, Inc.
For more information please visit out website at: http://www.cpccci.com
and http://www.cpcwebsolutions.com
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