Water Cooler Talk and the Web
Five Tips for Companies Dealing with Social Media Oversharing [caption id="attachment_4760" align="alignleft" width="300"] [credit: quinn.anya][/caption]Social media sharing has changed almost every aspect of the workplace. Acting as the great equalizer, employees may have just as much visibility on the web (and sometimes more) as their employer. Now that younger workers are entering the workforce – a generation that grew up with these social media tools and personal transparency as the norm – HR departments that have traditionally kept a tight lid on sensitive information are faced with a new challenge: how to keep confidential and proprietary information under wraps. Now more than ever, employers need to have a plan in place to deal with office gossip and complaints that, in the past, were confined to the relative obscurity of the break room.…