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"On-line Social Networking Forums: (Un)Welcome to the Workplace"

Submitted by: Greg Gowe on 2010/11/02  
Topics: - Computer Use & Social Media - Lawyers' Papers - Privacy - Recruiting & Hiring - Workplace Policies

"On-line Social Networking Forums: (Un)Welcome to the Workplace" (2010) is the title of a paper written by three lawyers at Gowlings - Melanie Polowin, Bettina Burgess, and Laurence Bourgeois-Hatto.

The paper reviews, "the legal and practical issues and provides recommendations for the three main areas where on-line social networking forums impact the modern workplace:

  1. when used as a tool for recruitment;
  2. when used as a tool for marketing/selling; and
  3. when social networking becomes social notworking, or is otherwise harmful to the employer."