As we moved through 2010 Facebook has been a major subject of contention in the workplace for a number of reasons:
- Employees addicted to posting and reading even during working hours – Average number of hours people spend on Facebook during working hours is 2.5.
- Workers “friending” each other and then using Facebook information against each other at work.
- Company owners “friending” their employees (always a bad idea) and then discovering discriminatory remarks and beliefs that have the potential to be abrasive in the work place.
These days, bad employee behavior is no longer confined to cubicle walls. Some workers are now sharing disparaging opinions and even proprietary information about their employers on social media – Web forums that in many cases can accessed by anyone, including a company's clients, investors and competitors.
Business owners may be able to protect themselves by instituting a written policy outlining what kind of content is and isn't acceptable to post on social media.
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