Employees unworried about SNS checks

13/05/2008

Employees are unworried their bosses will look them up on social networking sites (SNSs), new research has shown.

Despite warnings that companies look up workers' profiles, two in five were unperturbed and happy to share their page with their bosses, onrec.com has reported.

Brian Singh, managing director of Zinc Research, which conducted the study alongside Dufferin Research, found if a company could develop a retention strategy based around a network, they "will better connect to their workforce and get the upper hand in business".

The Trades Union Congress is keen employers allow access to these sites during working hours and inform staff of any monitoring that takes place.

"If you monitor internet usage at work, data protection regulations require you to make it clear that this is happening," it said in a briefing on social networking and human resources.

Employment firm, Peninsula, estimates 233 million hours are lost each month by workers looking at social networking sites, the BBC reported.

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