Mike Elgan at Datamation writes about a social media monitoring company called Social Intelligence. Social Intelligence provides not only social media screening of potential candidates, which seems pretty common these days, but ongoing surveillance of employees. It continuously monitors employees social media behavior - including what they post when they're not at work.
Fear Factor
Social Intelligence is using scare tactics to appeal to managers to use its service. Quoting Elgan:
What happens if one of your employees freaks out, comes to work and starts threatening coworkers with a samurai sword? You'll be held responsible because all of the signs of such behavior were clear for all to see on public Facebook pages. That's why you should scan every prospective hire and run continued scans on every existing employee.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Monitoring Employees Online Behavior - When They're Not at Work
Author: Klint Finley
