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ARTICLE · 03 MARCH 2012

Employees and social media: where does work end and home begin?

Social media has created a dimension to managing employees, whether at work or out of hours.

AustraliaEmployment and HR

Today, communicating with our friends, family and work colleagues has never been easier. We can communicate literally at any time from almost any place simply by pushing a 'touch screen' button on our latest mobile phone or tablet, or by sitting at our computer.

These advances in technology have created a fundamental change in the way we communicate both privately and in the corporate world. We can hold face to face corporate conferences without a single person being in the same room, state or even country.

These days we can take our work with us wherever we go as long as there is an internet or Wi-Fi connection and/or mobile telephone provider reception. The difficulty that arises with such advances that it causes the once clearly defined line between work and personal life to become increasingly blurred, particularly with use of social networking media such as Facebook and Twitter.

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