GROUP BLOG: Employers should tread lightly when searching social media in the recruitment process

Thanks to easier accessibility via smartphones and other mobile devices, social media is everywhere — in the home, at the grocery store, at school, and even at work. With recent studies indicating that Facebook has more than 1.32 billion users, and that LinkedIn has surpassed 300 million, chances are that your employees are logging in daily — oftentimes blurring the lines between work and personal online activity. Such pervasive use of social media in today’s workplace presents new opportunities for employers, as well as some concerns such as employee productivity and information breaches. Amid these and other issues that frequently arise, employers must now be mindful of how information obtained from social media sites is utilized in the recruiting and hiring process.

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