{"id":39,"date":"2010-02-04T11:26:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wavecrestcomputing.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-06-24T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T20:57:17","slug":"few-employers-have-a-social-networking-policy-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wavecrest.net\/index.php\/few-employers-have-a-social-networking-policy-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Few Employers Have a Social Networking Policy in Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report by Manpower found that very few companies have policies regarding social networking use.\u00a0 In fact, only 29% of US companies have a formal social networking policy in place.\u00a0 Social networks are not only time wasters, but they can pose serious security risks or damage a company&#8217;s reputation if employees post confidential or harmful material about the company.\u00a0 No matter what an employer&#8217;s stance is on social networking use in the workplace, it is highly recommended to have a policy in place and educate employees on that policy. 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Paranac, a shareholder in LeClairRyan\u2019s Labor and Employment Group has offered <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wavecrestcomputing.com\/?p=33\" target=\"_blank\">Web-use policy suggestions<\/a> on what companies should include.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unsure whether or not you want to <a title=\"block social networking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wavecrest.net\/block-social-networks.html\">block social networking<\/a>, we have also written a paper that addresses the issues surrounding social networking use in the workplace, the importance of creating a policy, and monitoring or filtering employee&#8217;s Web use according to that policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavecrest.net\/editorial\/include\/SocialNetworking_SocialNotworking.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">White Paper: Social Networking or Social Not-working?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/Article.aspx?R=1007493\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/Article.aspx?R=1007493<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report by Manpower found that very few companies have policies regarding social networking use.\u00a0 In fact, only 29% of US companies have a formal social networking policy in place.\u00a0 Social networks are not only time wasters, but they can pose serious security risks or damage a company&#8217;s reputation if employees post confidential or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,37,9,16],"tags":[101,119,5,6,129,128,151],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-productivity-concerns","category-security-threats","category-web-use-management","tag-employee-productivity","tag-employee-web-use","tag-internet-filtering","tag-internet-monitoring","tag-security-risks","tag-social-networking","tag-time-wasters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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