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Should Managers Monitor The Online Social Interactions Of Their Employees? By Luis Suarez Earlier on today, I bumped into one of those blog posts that you know is not going to leave you indifferent; quite the opposite, because it touches base on a growing trend that you know is going to cause plenty of trouble ahead, specially for most businesses out there who are starting to embrace social software as their next wave of collaborative and knowledge sharing tools. Even more when that trend collides, up front, with some fundamental privacy rights of knowledge workers. And maybe of employers, too! Have you read Keeping a Closer Eye on Employees' Social Networking by Joshua Brustein? If you haven't, you should. It's one of those very interesting, and thought-provoking, articles that touches base on the rather delicate issue of employers monitoring the online social software interactions of their employees during working hours. Goodness! Isn't that something like opening Pandora's box? And not knowing the full consequences of venturing into something that in the long run could turn out to be rather nasty? Well, I hope I am wrong. Very wrong. Continue Reading

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