Social Media Ethics at the Workplace.

The usage of social media is rising, and unfortunately people tend to use it unethically in their workplace, and with their colleagues, and friends.

They have surveyed US. workers who use social media actively compared to workers who do not, and the results are very interesting. First they answered several question, like sharing bad experience about your company, or do less work to compensate cut benefits, etc; workers with active social media answered yes on average 40-50% while workers who do not with an average of 10-15%. We can conclude that employees who use social media in more than 30% during its work time, tend to behave more unethically, but they tend to observe more unethical behavior, and they more likely saw someone to report it.

So what is the relation between ethics and social media?
First of all, this problem probably would not occur if some workers would not spend more than 30% of their  work time on social media. So when do they work, and what is the quality of their work?
The solution can be to incorporate a social media policy which includes set policies, training, and it would hold employees accountable.

All in all, employees at the workplace should be focused on to give their best to the place where they work, and not to spend 1-2 hours on blogging, Facebook or Twitter.


Here is the link to read the full article!
http://mashable.com/2012/03/17/social-media-ethics/