Facebook currently boasts 700 million users, Twitter 200 million, and LinkedIn 100 million. Chances are your employees frequent at least one of these social media sites from time to time. And chances are compliance departments aren’t quite clear on what their oversight role can be when employees post something that mentions their employer.
Fear that employees will say things that could come back to haunt their employers certainly isn’t new, says Jack Greiner, a partner at law firm Graydon Head & Ritchey in Cincinnati; social media’s blistering speed and global scope simply have made employer’s concerns much more urgent. “The ability to control it has lessened a bit,” Greiner says.
