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Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country.1 And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicate there is considerable fluidity in the Facebook user population: 61% of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in […]
TV’s MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, are once again using science and engineering to help keep America’s youth safe at work. Savage and Hyneman, cohosts of Discovery Channel’s popular MythBusters, were among a panel to judges that selected winners of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Safety in the Workplace Innovator Award,” the “Safety and […]
Continue reading …It is now illegal in six U.S. states for employers to ask job applicants for the passwords to their social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter. California and Illinois recently joined four other states barring employers from demanding that employees divulge their social-media passwords. Passed during 2012, California’s and Illinois’ laws became effective January 1, 2013. […]
Continue reading …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 […]
Continue reading …Two new reports show the growing influence of social media and the Internet on the workplace. In the U.S., 75% of employees access social media at least once a day from their personal mobile devices while at work. More than half of U.S. companies do not block access to the Internet. These are some of […]
Continue reading …Technology giant IBM is purchasing human resources technology provider Kenexa in a deal valued at $1.3 billion. The deal, announced 27 Aug. 2012, is the latest in string of acquisitions and mergers in the human resources technology realm. These mergers have major implications for thousands of corporations, their employees and job-seekers. Kenexa, based in Wayne, Pa., […]
Continue reading …Social network sites are part of most people’s lives these days, to varying degrees. While they provide a lot of positive support to businesses and workers on a regular basis, it is not always the case. Every thought or action does not and should not be posted. Social networking sites enable potential employers to research […]
Continue reading …The cool new way to work is the kind of office where there’s always fresh coffee and no office politics. And you can leave anytime you feel like it. This is coworking: think co-op with wi-fi. It’s a new breed of flexible office spaces catching on globally by attracting independent contractors and work-at-home professionals as […]
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