One-Third of Google Employees Haven’t Posted to Google+ in Past Month [REPORT]

If Google wants to boost engagement on Google+, it might want to start by encouraging its own employees to be more active in posting to the social network, according to one new tracking tool.

Nearly one-third of Google employees haven't updated their profiles on Google+ in the past month, according to Google Plus Ghosts, a website that launched this week to track how active Googlers are on Google+. What's more, about a fifth of Google employees haven't posted to Google+ in the past three months, according to the site.

However, the figures don't take...

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Published By: Mashable - Wednesday, 7 November, 2012

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