Blogging, tweeting, or keeping your friends up to date on facebook all blur the boundaries between our work and personal lives, but employers and workers alike are still struggling to adjust.
Arbitration service ACAS has issued new guidance to employers on how to manage the challenges and risks of social networking, from workplace bullying, recruitment, performance management to defamation and disciplinaries. It’s clear many employers need the prompt – research last year showed only 16% of UK employees were aware of any company guidelines in this area. Read more…
posted 29/09/2011
As Get Safe Online Week draws to a close today, we’ve got a new interactive toolkit to help improve workers’ Internet security awareness and skills. According to Get Safe Online’s 2008 Report, a worrying 66% of Internet users have the same password for multiple websites, 23% have posted confidential or personal information online, and 17% have opened email attachments from an unknown source, potentially putting themselves at risk from viruses or other malicious software.
This could have a huge impact on the firms they work for, who may stand to lose valuable commercial or customer data, or lose money through damage or downtime due to attacks, not to mention getting people into trouble – whether or not they know what they’ve done wrong.
The benefits that the Internet brings to UK business are growing every day. Social media and networking are increasingly important to people’s professional and personal lives. But employers have to put time and money into making sure their staff are aware of the dangers associated with working online, or they could just be pouring all the money they spend on the rest of their computer security systems down the drain.
So, to do something about this, we’ve got together with GetSafeOnline.org and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) to produce Not Safe For Work? – a free online toolkit for people at work in the UK. It has video interviews from industry experts, quizzes and reading lists, and can make you a personalised advice prescription, tailored to your own Internet usage.
Have a go now, it could tell you something that will save you a lot of grief.
And hey, let’s be careful out there!
posted 21/11/2008
If you’re one of the seven million bloggers in the UK, beware ….the current trend for posting your innermost thoughts, opinions, social life etc and the rise in the popularity of social networking sites could cost you that dream job. Read more…
posted 30/03/2007
If you’re a blogger, you might be putting your job on the line every time you go online. Read more…
posted 03/01/2007
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