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8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook

A few days ago I was informing you about studies that revealed that Facebook is a productivity killer. It seems that this has been closely monitored by many managers lately, because now it’s time for another study to show that Facebook is also a reason for firing employees. There is no wonder, since numbers shown that 87% of employees using the social networking site at work couldn’t define a clear business reason for using it.

Proofpoint Survey says that 17 percent of companies have issues with employee’s use of social media. Furthermore, 8% of companies reported that they have dismissed employees because of their behavior on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. An alarming thing is Continue reading ‘8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook’