Are your staff constantly fiddling about on their phones? Do you feel that staff are spending too much time on social network sites; do you feel they appear distracted from their work because the ‘ping’ of a new message is more enticing than the task they are supposedly working on. You may even have heard your staff at the more mature age spectrum, raising their eyebrows at the tedious obsession their younger colleagues have with their smart phones.

Our earlier blogs covered social media in relation to recruitment and staff conduct. This final blog will look at how to put measures in place to protect the business when key employees leave.         

Social media is continuing to expand. Current estimates are Facebook 1 billion, LinkedIn 187 million and Twitter 75 million users worldwide. This creates a wealth of opportunities and dangers for employers.

The current ‘social media era’ is changing the way people interact with each other, therefore, inadvertently changing the nature of the relationship between employers and employees.

Inappropriate conduct when fraternising on social media can affect a business in a number of ways and it is recommended that organisations take steps to actively manage employees’ use of social media to avoid any damage being caused to the business.   

The social media era is upon us. For the majority of people, the internet is the first point of call for deciding whether a venue is worthy of a visit, to find out what are people saying about said venue and to post comments on how they found it after their trip.

That said, it seems it’s not much different in relation to potential employers and employees. Social profiles of companies and individuals are more and more being ‘checked out’ in order to establish a whether they may be a good match.