Toby Young has resigned from the board of a new university regulator after more than a week of criticism over controversial comments he made on social media. He is a journalist, his views a...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2018/01/can-your-social-media-profile-kill-your.html
An Australian electrician managed to bunk off work about 140 times to play golf, covering his tracks using a crisp packet to shield an electronic tracker. Tom Colella, 60, took his former empl...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2017/12/evading-electronic-trackers.html
It’s been a year since social media giant Facebook launched its first foray into workplace communication. Ajai Seghal shares how the Chemistry Group uses Workplace and the impact he believes�...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2017/10/facebook-and-collaboration-at-work.html
Staff are treated as ‘throwaway workers with throwaway rights’ as technology allows new methods of exploitation, a union leader warned. TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said mistreat...
Uber drivers team up in gangs to force higher prices before they pick up passengers, research has revealed. Researchers at the University of Warwick found Uber drivers in London and New York ...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2017/08/uber-misbehaviour.html
Testimony from those working to keep beheadings, bestiality and child sexual abuse images off Facebook indicates that the support provided isn’t enough... See Underpaid and overburdened: the...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2017/05/working-on-frontline-at-facebook.html
An investment bank employee has been investigated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after sharing confidential client information over WhatsApp. While a reasonable level of employee socia...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2017/05/sharing-confidential-client-information.html
An employment tribunal held that a long-serving employee was fairly dismissed for making derogatory comments about his colleagues and his employer on Twitter up to three years previously... ...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2017/01/fired-for-historical-tweets.html
The company is accused of breaching labour laws with its internal policy banning workers from writing about workplace concerns. Google is being sued over its internal confidentiality poli...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2016/12/google-ban-on-employees-writing-stories.html
A plea from rail company Southern for beleaguered passengers to tell the RMT union how they feel about ongoing strikes appears to have backfired. Southern tweeted : "Time to get back on track...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2016/10/strikes-and-twitter.html
This report examines the extent to which employers are making use of social media to promote and access employee voice. Social media describes online platforms that allow for user-generat...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2016/05/social-media-and-employee-voice.html
Should governments step in to regulate work emails and so rescue harassed staff from the perils of digital burnout? The answer in France appears to be "Yes". President Francois Hol...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-new-right-to-disconnect-from-emails.html
Employers can read workers' private messages sent via chat software and webmail accounts during working hours, judges have ruled. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that re...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2016/01/eu-court-ruling-on-internet-use-at-work.html
The worst case of “work addiction” I have encountered was described to me by an ex-management consultant. A member of his team – let’s call him Gary – was forced by his employer to tak...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-addictive-powers-of-smart-phone-at.html
The realities of work and new forms of web-based communication technology
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2015/09/kill-trade-union-bill.html
Striking unions could face restrictions on their use of social media, the TUC's general secretary has told the BBC. A consultation document linked to the proposed Trade Union Bill suggests ...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2015/08/restriction-of-social-media-during.html
The realities of work and new forms of web-based communication technology
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2015/08/protecting-right-to-strike-via-youtube.html
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has overturned a tribunal decision that an employee was unfairly dismissed after placing an image of a witch as a screensaver on the computer of a colleague ...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2015/08/screensaver-bullying.html
An employment tribunal was wrong to conclude that a Scottish Canals employee was unfairly dismissed after he posted Facebook comments boasting of getting drunk while on emergency standby and des...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2015/08/case-law-and-social-media-employee.html
British Airways paid £1m to hush up the details of a spying operation in which the phones and emails of its own cabin staff were allegedly improperly accessed during a bitter dispute with Brita...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2015/03/private-investigators-and-strikes.html
ACAS has recently produced a document on contemporary workplace trends. Included in this document is a consideration of social media as an emergent form of employee voice. For more...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2015/03/workplace-trends-and-social-media.html
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare in the information age... ... ...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2015/01/creating-official-narratives-of-war.html
LinkedIn is facing a class action lawsuit in California over its premium “reference search” function that allows employers to identify and approach applicants’ former colleagues. Re...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2014/11/references-and-linkedin.html
An app which enables healthcare professionals to share photos is to be rolled out across western Europe by the end of the year. The app was designed to enable doctors to share pictures of thei...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2014/10/instagram-for-doctors.html
"It's not what you know but who you know," is an old saying about job-hunting. In the world of social networks we "know" more people than ever and we can be connected to the people they know a...
http://workblogging.blogspot.com/2013/11/job-hunting-web-20.html