[Jobs] Some Companies Firing Employees for Leaving Comments On Blogs

[Everett Gavel]

Some Companies Firing Employees for Leaving Comments On
Blogs
http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=720071

"Nearly ten percent of companies have fired an employee
for violating corporate blogging or message board
policies, and 19 percent have disciplined an employee
for the same infractions, according to a new survey
from Proofpoint, a messaging security company.

Almost a third of companies "employ staff to read or
otherwise analyze outbound email," while more than
fifteen percent have hired people whose primary
function is to spy on outgoing corporate email. A
quarter have fired an employee for violating corporate
email policies. Twenty percent of the companies and
almost thirty percent of companies with more than
20,000 employees had been ordered by a court or a
regulator to turn over employee emails."

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