What Can You Say About Your Employer on Social Media?

Your social media behavior has an impact. This activity is important because you must recognize the consequences of your online behavior and the effects your behavior will have on the reputation of the business you are representing.

The goal of this activity is to recognize all the steps involved in developing a social media policy that balances the interests of both employees and employers.

Employees' social media behavior can both help and hurt businesses' efforts to build reputations with customers, foster employee engagement, and earn profits. Because of this, nearly every day we hear of another employee fired for inappropriate social media posts. These conflicts take place at the intersection of employer interests, employee rights, and the law. Let's begin by briefly outlining what the law says.

Multiple Choice

• The rights of employees to unionize
• Management deciding the appropriate actions to take to protect its company's reputation when unhappy employees makedisparaging remarks about the company on social media.
• Methods that organizations can use to advertise on social media sites
• The rights of employees to use social media on their work breaks
• The loss of productivity associated with social media usage on-the-job