60% of Employers to Monitor Their Employees’ Facebook Pages by 2015
Many employers already monitor their workers’ Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages - but the practice is set to increase, a new report has revealed.
A new report by data analysts Gartner has claimed that by the year 2015, 60 per cent of employers will monitor social media pages of their employees.
The ‘Big Brother’ monitoring will be driven by security worries about employees leaking information or talking negatively about their workplace.
“The growth in monitoring employee behavior in digital environments is increasingly enabled by new technology and services,” the Daily Mail quoted Andrew Walls, research vice president of Gartner, as saying.
“Surveillance of individuals, however, can both mitigate and create risk, which must be managed carefully to comply with ethical and legal standards,” Walls said,
Most employers will use their monitoring to prevent security breaches - but simply having the technology at their disposal will be a huge temptation to managers who want to know more about their staff.