Infographic: Do Employers “Like” Social Media?

Social media has gone to work to stay and many companies are still trying to figure out what to do about it.

Some forward-looking industries are embracing social media. Others are at least starting to put policies in place to make sure the use of social media by employees remains appropriate. A smaller group hopes to turn back the clock by preventing employees from using social media at all.

Which industries are leaders and which are laggards when it come to social media access in the workplace?

In this infographic from compensation consulting firm PayScale, based on data from the 2012 Compensation Best Practices Report, names names of the social and not-so-social industries.

PayScale social media infographic