Question

The 2011 National Business Ethics Survey defines “active social networkers” as people who spend more than 30 percent of the workday participating on social networking sites. According to the results of the survey, active social networkers air company linen in public. Sixty percent would comment on their personal sites about their company if it was in the news, 53% say they share information about work projects once a week or more, and more than a third say they often comment, on their personal sites, about managers, coworkers, and even clients. What are the dangers of such behavior for the employee and employer?

Answer 1

The providing & sharing an information and commenting about your company and its project or regarding the managers, co-workers and about clients always bring the dangers to have disturbed behavior and relation between the employee and employer. Disclosing the secrets of the company, its projects and the products design and formula would be very annoying for the employer. The competitors could take advantages of all these information about the company and its product and strategies.

The employer could take serious action against the employee which could include legal actions. The company would not allow much of the employees to get involve in the development and growth of the company’s product. The seniors would not allow much information to be passed-on to the juniors. The involved employee in all such activities of sharing information could send-off to home and he loses his/her job.

The Co-workers also would not find such mischief a good activity. They also stops taking to that involved employee. This will end the culprit employee’s social life.

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