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Managing Employees on Social Media

With social media here to stay and smart mobile devices abounding in offices, employers need to accept that they cannot legally or practically shut down the conversation. Here's what to do.

15 minute read February 27, 2011 at 01:51 PM
By
Kyle-Beth Hilfer
Managing Employees on Social Media

Editor's Note: On Feb. 7, American Medical Response of Connecticut settled the case mentioned in this article. Under the agreement, which was reached one day before a hearing by an administrative law judge was scheduled to begin, American Medical (AM) agreed to revise its “overly broad” social media policies.

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