1. Managing the Risk of Worker E-Mail and Blog Misuse Kelly Savage, Esq.
2. CNN.com 101 Dumbest Moments in Business The year's biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers 17. Alarm One Jeez, what a crybaby... A jury in Fresno, Calif., awards $1.7 million in damages to Janet Orlando, who quit her job with home security company Alarm One after team-building exercises during which she and her colleagues were forced to eat baby food, wear diapers, or submit to being spanked on the butt with a rival company's yard signs.
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8. Nearly a quarter of businesses have had e-mail subpoenaed by courts.
9. Fifteen percent of companies have faced lawsuits based on employee e-mail.
10. “ Workers’ e-mail, IM, blog and Internet content creates written business records that are the business equivalent of DNA evidence.”
In today's workplace, computers and electronic communications are the norm rather than the exception. Computers, e-mail, electronic databases and on-line research play an important role in many businesses today. Technological advances have made electronic communication indispensable in today's workplace. According to recent reports, text messaging figures into L.A. train wreck probe. Investigators of last week’s L.A. train wreck that killed 25 people are looking into a report that an engineer blamed for missing a stop signal light may have been distracted by text messaging. Today, we will discuss the ever-increasing use of technology in the workplace, its potential for abuse and how employers can protect themselves.
