Communication Technology

According to a commentary from The Guardian, corporations and employment tribunals square measure finally going to grips with social networking, therein several firms currently have a social media/blogging policy as a part of their written agreement terms with staff, in addition as employment tribunals recently upholding variety of dismissals against staff for gross misconduct with reference to blogging concerning work.

Game over?

Personally, I doubt it, however it'll have some have an effect on on what staff compose their Facebook or web log.

In my read this is often simply additional proof of employers laborious individuals for the issues they produce within the 1st, i.e. employers manage individuals badly, the worker has few ways in which to complain concerning the leader, the leader finds out and disciplines the worker.

Britain can struggle to emerge from recession if British employers keep leaning on law manufacturers to stay dynamic  employment law to suit their own interests.

For additional details see however your Facebook standing may place you out of labor by Philip Landau.

According to The Times today England's chances of landing the 2018 World Cup has been dealt a severe blow by a work blogger!

Some details:

The first indications that a storm was brewing were made public more than a month ago.

But only the most eagle-eyed internet observer would have stumbled across the anonymous blog post.

“I am a single thirtysomething from London,” it began.

“I have been working as a Whitehall civil servant since 2002.”

What followed were claims that the author was friends with a former Labour minister.

“Mr T” worked in a “high-profile position”.

Yesterday it emerged that Mr T was in fact Lord T — David Triesman — the chairman of the Football Association.

What was more, the blogger, Melissa Jacobs, had secretly taped the peer, also the head of England’s 2018 World Cup bid, making a series of ill-judged remarks that swiftly became his undoing.

See Melissa Jacobs: the civil servant blogger with ‘beautiful eyes’.

This is the dilemma set out in "Work ethics" - a feature of The Guardian's Saturday Work supplement.

More details:

I've discovered an 'anonymous' work blog which I'm sure is all about our office.

Events match up uncannily and while no one's identified, people have been given recognisably rude nicknames.

I'm pretty sure I know who's behind it, but I haven't made it public yet.

How should I handle this?

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Work-related blogs get quite a bit of attention in the popular media and last year saw three (that I know of) turned in to books.

Last week while Googling around for any further reports or mention of "work-related blogs", "employee blogs", "job blogs", "workblogging", etc. I came across an interesting piece of work on this very matter by Abigail Schoneboom.

The working paper is called Diary of a Working Boy: Creative Resistance Among Anonymous Workbloggers and can be downloaded here.

It's particularly ironic for myself as I'm just about in the final stages of finishing my second working paper (really a better version of the first!) on work-related blogs, for a conference in Amsterdam next month - a paper that I will put on-line after I've presented it.

...the study aims to understand the intersection between workblogging, creative writing, and social change, capturing the appeal of humdrum office jobs to aspiring writers and activists who pursue their emancipation clandestinely within the organisation.