Taking a cue from social networking sites like Orkut, many companies are creating similar websites to enable their employees spread across various locations interact with each other.

Interestingly, a number of companies are also discouraging their staff from logging on to Orkut, MySpace or FaceBook as communications on these public platforms are said to be  non-official in nature.

“Our employees are working on various locations and bringing varied cultures to relate to each other was a very tough challenge,” US-based software firm Global Logic’s vice-president Rajul Garg told PTI.

Global Logic introduced a social networking site titled ‘Confluence’ about two years ago to tackle this issue, Garg said. Driven by its popularity, the company has now introduced an advanced version of this website named ‘Glue’.
Similar in-house platforms have been launched by a number of companies. “We needed a window for establishing informal and ad-hoc connections. Our in-house networking site “Meeting Point” and a forum titled ‘X-change’ have fulfilled that need,” Apollo International HR head Vijay Rai said.