Several years ago I attended an industry conference where a number of workshops detailed how to use and manage various technologies. A senior-level IT executive spoke on the use of social media by businesses, and he pointed out that he blocked employees access to websites such as Facebook and Twitter...
From the mechanics of the hiring process to establishing clear company policy, identifying the professional risks inherent in social media is becoming more important than ever.
The impact of social media on employment claims was a hot topic at the most recent International Conference of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society in San Antonio.
The use of social-media sites—Facebook, YouTube, Twitter—has surged at a record-breaking pace over the past few years, and they are now used by employees and employers in almost every workplace—a development that has opened new vehicles for harassment, discrimination and employment-related defamation.
The explosion of social media networks has created enormous opportunity as well as emerging risk for the business professionals who create, manage and use them.