Can a business you work for require you as a condition of employment to not mention their name on Facebook or Twitter or any other social media? The answer appears to be yes. Take a look at this article. I think that businesses will continue to simply absorb as much of your behavior as a worker or citizen as they can, unless the federal government says they can’t. Why should you be allowed to wander about as a free human being when they can tell you not to and make you liable for firing or a lawsuit if you fail to cooperate?

Last week I was in a café when I overheard a conversation next to me. At a nearby table, a supervisor from a child care agency was interviewing a young job seeker. The interviewer asked the young college student a series of questions about her experience, education goals and schedule. From what I gathered, she had already gone through a phone interview and this was the first in-person meeting between the two women. The interviewer then handed the … Read More

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