Address workplace risks from technology and social media with a Code of Conduct for employees

It goes without saying that all employees have private lives. It was probably not much more than thirty years ago that the only rules for the whole of the workforce were arriving on time, not spending too much time on the phone to the husband or wife, and not taking the company ballpoint pens home.

However, the world of work is now completely different. Everyone has a mobile phone, so the ability of an employer to use the office telephone system to restrict phone usage is now gone. The proliferation of laptops and tablets, coupled with the propensity of firewalls designed to limit personal use to impact on the business as well, has also completely changed the dynamics of businesses.