You and another manager in your company disagree about whether employees should be encouraged to create online profi les on LinkedIn and other business-oriented social networking websites. You say these connections can be valuable to employees by helping them meet their peers throughout the industry and valuable to the company by identifying potential sales leads and business partners. Th e other manager says that encouraging employees to become better known in the industry will only make it easier for competitors to lure them away with enticing job off ers.

Write a brief email message that outlines your argument.

(Make up any information you need about the company and its industry.) [LO-2]