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ARTICLE · 18 DECEMBER 2011

Monitoring your employees' use of technology

The proliferation of the use of technology and social media in the workplace raises concerns for many employers.

AustraliaMedia, Telecoms, IT, Entertainment

Introduction

It has become increasingly common for organisations to incorporate the use of social media into their business strategies. Social media has the potential to provide organisations with an unparallelled array of benefits, including the ability to promote the organisation's brand and services to a broad demographic and across international boundaries.

Similarly, increases in the varied uses of technology in the workplace have had incomparable benefits for organisations. At a minimum, technological advances have allowed employees to access work and customers to access products from almost any location across the globe. This has obvious benefits for any organisation.

The proliferation of the use of technology and social media in the workplace also raises concerns for many employers. These concerns include the impact that the use of technology and the access to social media has on productivity as well as the potential that negative comments made by

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