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The Employer Handbook BlogSurvey reveals the top workplace productivity killers (Hint: one rhymes with “mocial sedia”)
And most of them revolve around technology.
According to a CareerBuilder survey, here are the top ten:
Articles Posted in Social Media and the Workplace
#SHRM14: Let’s grab coffee (you’re buying)
And by coffee, I mean turkey legs and frozen blueberry-mango rum lemonade.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down…
You see that badge over there? You know what I had to do to get that badge?Buy the full version of Photoshop Spike the Kool-Aid of everyone on the SHRM Annual Conference Speaker Selection Committee
I beat out thousands (trillions?) of other speaker submissions to be selected as a SHRM 2014 Annual Conference & Exposition speaker.
A lawyer is literally starving himself to raise awareness for social media firings
Meet Delaware lawyer, Brian Zulberti.
According to his website, back in 2013, after getting his DE bar license, Mr. Zulberti emailed every Delaware lawyer asking for information about job openings. In each email, he included this photo of himself in a sleeveless t-shirt.
Mr. Zulberti claims that this mass email, coupled with a subsequent story written in Above The Law, made him a “global internet sensation.”
Dust off that resume when your students really “like” that Facebook post of your face on a beer label
Why, just last week, I was saying that the Facebook stupidity scale had shifted away from teachers in favor of bar/tavern staff.
For future reference, you can never go wrong with Vining the one-year-old slugger.
For the love of God, bar owners! Train your employees not to liken beer to domestic violence.
I used to say that teachers were the most irresponsible Facebook user group. Now, I’m leaning towards the bar and nightclub industry.
Last month, a worker at a downtown Philadelphia bar displayed a Heineken chalkboard with the message “I like my beer like I like my violence… domestic.” to attract customers.
But, instead of achieving its desired effect, a passerby tweeted the photo to a local news station and a major cluster of a poopstorm ensued, which culminated in the worker losing his job.
Two more states just made it illegal for employers to demand social media passwords
Within the past week, two states have passed laws, which will provide employees with more workplace protections.
Truth be told, I wasn’t sure that the internet had yet arrived in either Oklahoma or Louisiana, the latter of which is still controlled by a French monarch, I’m fairly certain.
(But since Louisiana also has beignets and Mardi Gras, all is forgiven).
Tennessee has a social media workplace privacy law now, y’all
Here are some Tennessee fun facts:
- The city of Kingston served as Tennessee’s state capital for one day (September 21, 1807)
- There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any other county in the United States.
Social media in the workplace: what’s legal; what’s not? #nextchat
Yesterday, my buddy Jonathan Segal and I joined forces on Twitter to answer eight questions from SHRM’s We Know Next about the state of the law governing social media and the workplace.
A big thank you to SHRM and to those who were able to join us and participate.
ICYMI, here is a full recap.
This is one badass labor and employment law roundtable
Recently, several local lawyers and I participated in a labor and employment law roundtable for The Legal Intelligencer.
Actually, the table was rectangular. But, the coffee and muffins were free, so I didn’t complain.
Well, not until I dropped my pants and mooned the employee-rights lawyers on the panel. Trust me, they had it coming.
A 79-year-old teacher was fired for refusing to unfriend her students on Facebook
A teacher getting in trouble for something having to do with Facebook?
You don’t say…
The full story, plus another state has passed a social media workplace privacy law. I’ve got it all for you after the jump…
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