Comments on: More social media and workplace firings

By: Michael Specht

Michael Specht — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:33:00 +0000

Jamin, thanks for stopping by, seems I stirred you up a bit with the post.

Agree we have seen less reports of firings however from my work with HR departments people are being let go due to their actions online. My comment on monitoring was that done incorrectly would be clearly unethical.

Once again thanks.

By: Jamin Gregor

Jamin Gregor — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:01:34 +0000

What an absolutely ridiculous article. This has not ’set the scene’ for anything. A year later an workplace firings due to social media are minimal.
Your foresight about companies providing social media monitoring (SR7) is clearly wrong. Ethics isnt even a consideration in what they do.
You in fact are the scaremonger.

By: Tweet Nothings : Abhijit Bhaduri’s Official Website

Tweet Nothings : Abhijit Bhaduri’s Official Website — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:36:35 +0000

[...] using the company’s network and laptop to generally vent to the world at large? Should the employer monitor such tweets or blog posts? There are firms who spy on employee behavior on Facebook and other [...]

By: Kevin Howard

Kevin Howard — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:52:30 +0000

Karla, you may be making the assumption that all employers are interested in or value what their employees think. There are lots of “us and them” situations out there .

But even if an employer is genuinely interested in hearing suggestions from their employees, I can’t imagine many employers would want the content of their suggestion box to be open to the public on a social networking site.

Why should employers tolerate their employees writing critical posts on a blog or public facebook page? I’m sure employees wouldn’t like it if their employers criticized their performance on a social networking site.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:41:30 +0000

Great article! I didn’t realize how social mediums really shine the spotlight on everything you say if you’re not careful.

By: Karla Dixon

Karla Dixon — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:28:20 +0000

You would think that employers would look at this the other way around. Finding the people that are willing to voice an opinion regarding their working environment could be infinitely more useful in improving that environment for others than traditional “suggestion boxes” or employee satisfaction surveys. If employers wanted to get a better ROI on the investment of people monitoring these types of communications, they could dedicate at least a part of those resources to turning the sentiments that they find around. The possibility that the “my job sucks” sentiment could be correct seems to have escaped them.