Employers slow to develop rules on blogging about jobs
The number of bloggers continues to grow, but the number of workplace policies explaining companies’ rules on blogging remains anemic. And that can cause a lot of workplace angst for management and workers.
Although there are no real statistics on how many people have been fired for something they wrote on their personal blogs, the stories keep coming:
A reporter in Dover, Del., was fired for offensive postings on his personal blog. He was just added to the list. Remember “Washingtonienne,” the intern who embarrassed her bosses on Capitol Hill when she described sexcapades with unnamed staffers? A Microsoft employee was canned after he posted a picture that included Macs the company had purchased.
According to a survey done by the Society for Human Resource Management in July, 85 percent of companies do not have a written policy that provides employees with guidelines on what is acceptable to write about in a personal blog, while 8 percent do.
