Summary: Theepollicy Institute

Ms. Nancy Flynn is the founder and executive director of the Theepollicy Institute, a training and consulting firm that helps employers limit emails and internet risk. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Flynn’s complains that management has the right and responsibility to observe how employees are using social media on and off work hours. Ms. Flynn advocates it is all too easy for employees to use social media to bring unwanted attention to whatever company hired them. She believes that emails and social networking can lead to dangerous work conditions, and it’s not as harmless as other might think. Ms. Flynn points out classes that had to do with hospital employees that have been fired for discussing patient private informant in social media …show more content…
Lewis Maltby is president of the National Workrights Institute, nonprofit research and advocacy organization focused on the human-rights issues in the workplace. In this time and age, it would make common sense to dictate that employees would have their privacy when it comes to social media and the internet. Well Mr. Lewis believes that employers don’t need to monitor every day to day thing in their social media or in the emails. He strongly believes that the only reason an employer should monitor any employees social media is when there is reason to believe that the employees are engaging in illegal activities. Internet fishing is when a person goes online and searches for specific information about a person or group of people to see if the find anything. He admits that employers are human and cannot avoid offended when they see something on their employees social media, if they have different points of views or values. When employers use factors like social media when they have potential hire that can hurt more than help. Mr. Lewis states companies need to hire the most qualified applicants and not reject someone for disagreeing on their personal life. In Mr. Lewis’s view doing internet fishing places the companies and the employers at risk of liability. Information about the applicant before meeting them person could raise red flags on the employer’s head that could make them bias on applicants, this could mean discrimination charges and lawsuits on the …show more content…
My opinion will always stand that we cannot allow employers to be able to monitor our social media. Employees should be judged for the amount of work they are able to do, not what kind of lifestyle they choose to have. if employers screen employees by social media everyone would lose, they have to see who is the best qualified duty position and not what profile picture they have on