Sam Conforti offers five technology predictions for 2009, including a business crackdown on
employee use of social networking sites.
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Social Network Policy • Employee Personal Twitter Policy • Employee LinkedIn Policy • Corporate Blogging Policy • Corporate Blog Use Policy • Corporate Blog Post Approval Process • Corporate Blog Commenting Policy • Corporate Facebook Brand Page Usage Policy • Corporate Facebook Public Comment / Messaging Policy • Corporate Twitter Account Policy • Corporate YouTube Policy • Corporate YouTube Public Comment Policy • Company Password Policy «While it may seem frivolous to spell out policies for every social network, that's not quite the point,» Falls
Social Network Policy • Employee Personal Twitter Policy • Employee LinkedIn Policy • Corporate Blogging Policy • Corporate Blog Use Policy • Corporate Blog Post Approval Process • Corporate Blog Commenting Policy • Corporate Facebook Brand Page Usage Policy • Corporate Facebook Public Comment / Messaging Policy • Corporate Twitter Account Policy • Corporate YouTube Policy • Corporate YouTube Public Comment Policy • Company Password Policy «While it may seem frivolous to spell out policies for every social network, that's not quite the point,» Fall
Network Policy •
Employee Personal Twitter Policy •
Employee LinkedIn Policy • Corporate Blogging Policy • Corporate Blog
Use Policy • Corporate Blog Post Approval Process • Corporate Blog Commenting Policy • Corporate Facebook Brand Page Usage Policy • Corporate Facebook Public Comment / Messaging Policy • Corporate Twitter Account Policy • Corporate YouTube Policy • Corporate YouTube Public Comment Policy • Company Password Policy «While it may seem frivolous to spell out policies for every
social network, that's not quite the point,» Falls
social network, that's not quite the point,» Fall
network, that's not quite the point,» Falls says.
Since 2014, the
use of online competitions, activity tracking devices,
social networks, mobile apps and mobile messaging to help engage
employees have increased.
By hosting all compliant branded content on one easy to
use platform,
employees can — in one click — share these on brand messages to the
social network of their choice.
politics (and new Obama campaign
employee) Judith Freeman led an overview
of how the nominee - to - be's campaign has
used social networking tools
of all kinds to bring in new supporters, organize locally and (most importantly) put volunteers to work on their own.
Some are bustling between meetings with a brief smile to share with
employees like the warm Byrne, while others are what The
Social Network would call «plugged in,»
using headphones to distances themselves from the rest
of the world.
Whether you choose to
use informal methods such as
social media
networks or formal ways such as knowledge sharing tools and intranet, these tools can expedite knowledge sharing and save time
of your
employees.
You might think that with all
of the problems
social networking sites like Facebook can create in the workplace — ranging from lost productivity to potential legal liability for discrimination or harassment — employers should simply prevent
employees from
using these sites on the job.
If employers want to review
social networking profiles to get a sense
of what a potential
employee is like, I say let them (so long as they don't
use the information to unlawfully discriminate against protected groups).
«Mail, instant messaging, wikis, blogs,
social networking, online news aggregators,
social bookmarking and other hosted means
of communication and knowledge management are being
used more and more by professionals and business
employees,» notes Coffield.
For instance, internet
use could result in non-productive
employees who
use work computers to spend excessive amounts
of working time on
social networking sites.
The decision by Mr. Justice Teare empowers lawyers for broker TFS Derivatives to
use the
social networking site to track down former
employee Fabio de Biase as part
of a suit brought against the company by investment manager AKO Capital.
A fifth
of employers
use internet
social networking websites, such as Friends Reunited and MySpace, to perform checks on potential
employees, according to financial services recruiter Joslin Rowe.
Some
employees expressed frustration that the issue
of data sharing was being re-litigated in the media and conflated with recent allegations
of the Kremlin
using the
social network to spread propaganda.
A survey conducted this year disclosed on CareerBuilder.com's blog Hiring Site, that about 52 percent
of employers
use social networking sites to browse and screen potential
employees, up from 39 percent in 2013.
With the vast resources
of personal data so readily available through
social networking sites, it is very tempting for recruiters, HR managers and even yourself, to
use these methods to screen prospective
employees or to just find out information about an old friend.
Social networking is
used by 82 %
of the organizations surveyed to recruit managers and other salaried
employees (87 %) and hourly
employees (55 %).
It's a proven fact, that more than half
of employers today will
use some form
of social media to
network and screen potential
employees before offering them a position with their company.
Managers are now
using google and
social networks as a form
of employee background check.
38 %
of US companies
use social networking to source
employees, and 32 %
use recruiters.
According to CareerBuilder's annual
social media recruitment survey, 60 percent
of employers
use social networking sites to research job candidates, and 59 percent
of hiring managers
use search engines to learn about prospective
employees.
The trends include: Number 1: Controversy over Whether Employers
Using Credit Reports for Employment Screening is Discriminatory Increases Number 2: Questions about Criminal Records
of Job Applicants Become More Difficult for Employers to Ask Number 3: Employers Discover Fast and Cheap Online Background Checks
Using Criminal Databases Not Always Accurate or Legal Number 4: Background Checks
of Temporary Workers Cause for Concern for Employers as Hiring Increases Number 5: International Background Screening More Necessary Due to Mobility
of Workers in Global Economy Number 6:
Using Social Network Sites Such as Facebook to Screen Job Candidates Increases Legal Risk for Employers Number 7: More Workplace Violence Prevention Education Helps Protect Employers and
Employees Number 8: Increased Privacy Concerns Over Offshoring
of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Number 9: E-Verify and I - 9 Audits Help Government Find Employers with Illegal Workers Number 10: New Accreditation Standards Help Employers Select Background Screening Firms
A recent Angus Reid study
of Canadian small and medium - sized business owners, including real estate agents, revealed that more than 70 per cent say it's okay for
employees to
use business laptops or netbooks for non-work related activities, such as personal email and
social networking.