What Is Social Media Monitoring A Violation Of Privacy?
Introduction
Ever since using social media had gotten popular over the last years, employers have a new window to take a sneak peek into their employee’s lives. Before being considered for a job spot, many employers’ now-in-days check their candidate's social media purposefully looking for anything they do not like. Employees can lose their jobs over social-media posts, which leads to the big question: Is social media monitoring a violation of privacy? Employees across the country are being careful over what they post because they never know when their boss decides to search them up.
Many could argue that there is a privacy is at stake and others could argue that an organization’s life is at stake. “For an idea of how controversial this issue …show more content…
I must put myself in both points of views. One of an employee and the other one of an employer with a company on the line. Both cases have a right to something. If I was an employee, and didn’t do anything to put the companies’ name at stake I would feel untrusted and almost violated because I might post personal family pictures or anything related to religion, political party stance, or family issues. If I was an employer, I would want my company to succeed and have no negative comment about the company. An employee can have a bad day because of something their boss said and then take it out in a tweet. The same could happen with having a rough time with a customer. Every person somehow involved with the company or organization represents the business as a whole. In my opinion, the right answer is that social media should be kept private and out of the hands of employers because it is mainly used for personal …show more content…
If they are paying someone to monitor employee social media use, even while they are off-duty and you think that their social media use is important enough to regulate and control, there is also an argument that you should be paying them too. Advantages of monitoring include: making sure employees follow policies off work, beneficial to company image, less chances of getting into legal trouble, making sure none of the company’s secrets are exposed. The disadvantages are: employees tend to feel conscious, aware, and stressed and therefore think twice before posting anything; feelings of mistrust towards employers from employees, and employees could start looking for other jobs, and then be able to talk badly about the
Ever since using social media had gotten popular over the last years, employers have a new window to take a sneak peek into their employee’s lives. Before being considered for a job spot, many employers’ now-in-days check their candidate's social media purposefully looking for anything they do not like. Employees can lose their jobs over social-media posts, which leads to the big question: Is social media monitoring a violation of privacy? Employees across the country are being careful over what they post because they never know when their boss decides to search them up.
Many could argue that there is a privacy is at stake and others could argue that an organization’s life is at stake. “For an idea of how controversial this issue …show more content…
I must put myself in both points of views. One of an employee and the other one of an employer with a company on the line. Both cases have a right to something. If I was an employee, and didn’t do anything to put the companies’ name at stake I would feel untrusted and almost violated because I might post personal family pictures or anything related to religion, political party stance, or family issues. If I was an employer, I would want my company to succeed and have no negative comment about the company. An employee can have a bad day because of something their boss said and then take it out in a tweet. The same could happen with having a rough time with a customer. Every person somehow involved with the company or organization represents the business as a whole. In my opinion, the right answer is that social media should be kept private and out of the hands of employers because it is mainly used for personal …show more content…
If they are paying someone to monitor employee social media use, even while they are off-duty and you think that their social media use is important enough to regulate and control, there is also an argument that you should be paying them too. Advantages of monitoring include: making sure employees follow policies off work, beneficial to company image, less chances of getting into legal trouble, making sure none of the company’s secrets are exposed. The disadvantages are: employees tend to feel conscious, aware, and stressed and therefore think twice before posting anything; feelings of mistrust towards employers from employees, and employees could start looking for other jobs, and then be able to talk badly about the