Over the weekend, I read a funny news item about a woman from Canada, who was on medical leave from her job at IBM. She’d been away from work for about a year and receiving monthly sick-leave payments to get help with major depression.
The funny part is that it seems part of her “therapy” was living it up at a Chippendales show while on vacation. As many of us do, she posted her vacation pics on her Facebook page, where an eagle-eyed rep from Manulife, her insurance carrier, saw them. And quicker than you can say “socialized medicine,” her benefits were cut off.
The woman is now fighting to have her benefits reinstated, but I got to thinking. I know a growing number of employers check workers’ e-mails and computers for inappropriate correspondence or activity, but is Facebook in bounds as well?
I’m beyond paranoid, so I don’t post anything even remotely controversial on my Facebook page. But I know many employees
If employees overshare on Facebook, I say employers are well within their province to use the information they find to take down leave cheaters (or health care cheats, or corporate thieves, or any other bad behavior they can think of). So, pros,
