
This week, as we celebrated National Boss Day, many people
reflected on their relationship with their boss. Technology can sometimes
challenge this relationship, for example, when employees have bosses that love
email and refuse to communicate or manage an employee face-to-face.
Another highly debated topic is whether
bosses and subordinates should “friend” each other on social networking
sites.
Technology impacts these boss-subordinate
relationships, but also the broader relationship between a company and its
employees.
For instance, recent court
cases examined whether an employer has sufficient control over an employee’s
work-related emails sent through a personal email account to be obligated to
preserve those emails when litigation strikes. Although one court found that
the employer did not have possession of the emails in a personal email account,
another court found that the employer had a duty to preserve those emails once
it had notice of or could reasonably foresee litigation.
In addition, both Facebook and Twitter made
changes this week that make it more difficult for employees to “hide” online.
Facebook eliminated the ability of users to hide themselves from search
results, and Twitter enabled users to receive direct messages from anyone, not just
followers.
Technology and the Workplace
The Truth About Bad Bosses (
WSJ)
Court Finds Duty to Preserve Personal Emails of Employees (
Delaware Employment Blog)
20 Twitter Resources for Job Hunters (
Mashable)
Social media and the workplace and the lawsuits (
Employer Handbook)
A Company's Tweets Can Help Make It Creditworthy (
NPR)
Upgrade to the Apple iPhone 5s or 5c If You Travel Overseas (
Forbes)
Technology and the Law
Snapchat's unopened messages can be shared with police (
NBC)
Facebook Eases Privacy Rules for Teenagers (
NYTimes)
Court appoints antitrust monitor in Apple e-book case (
LATimes)
Disruptions: At Odds Over Privacy Challenges of Wearable Computing (
NYTimes)
Google to put user names, photos, comments in ads (
NBC)
There's an App for That
Facebook removes a privacy setting you might have been using (
NBC)
Twitter Unveils Option to Receive Direct Messages From Anyone (
ABC)
Furor Over Yahoo Mail Changes (
NYTimes)
SnapHack app lets users save Snapchat photos without notifying sender (
LATimes)
Google Now could be the injection of intelligence smartwatches need (
Guardian)
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