By Paul Bressan and Jessie Reider
Social networking — Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, blogs — has exploded. Never has information been disseminated so quickly, or so globally. This can be a tremendous marketing resource, but the advantages come at the price of increased risks for employers. Consider the following scenario:
Shelly has a Facebook account, and she regularly posts status updates on what she has been doing at work. Through her Facebook account, Shelly is “friends” with co-employees, supervisors, customers/clients and a variety of other acquaintances.
After a long week of 18-hour workdays, Shelly posts her status as, Longest week ever! BossLady made me work non-stop the whole week. How can I possibly produce quality work without rest? Guess quality isn’t that important to some people….As soon as this merger closes, home to sleep! Finally! Read more…
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