But I don’t think it’s a new threat to E2.0 mindset, contrarily, it will be another push to adoption E2.0 for most of enterprises. There are always some employees who don’t like to share or give advice to others whether there is layoff considering or not. If a company attended to develop a sharing culture, E2.0 will be a great tool or computing platform to help achieve that goal. Thus, the company at least will keep some knowledge from disappearing with the laid off employees. One of my customers is seeing the E2.0 tools recently, just because he is worried about the loss of enterprise knowledge with the laid-offs.

As to how to let employees share more, it is a big topic. Anyway, only a collaboration tool is not enough. Enterprises have to develop a culture, for instance, building evaluation and rewarding system. But, at least, E2.0 will be a computing necessity for share, collaboration and knowledge management.