By 2012, 60 Per of Firms May Monitor Employees Facebook Pages

Bangalore: Many Employers have already started monitoring their employees Facebook, Twitter and other social networking pages. But this practice might increase by 2015 by 60 percent, reports a recent survey conducted by data analysts Gartner.

This practice might be because to monitor the employees who may leak information about the current activities of the company or also to figure out who talks negatively about their company, reports the ANI.

As quoted on the Daily Mail, Andrew Walls, the research Vice-President of the Gartner said that, the growth in employers monitoring the employees’ behavior in digital environment is enabled by new technology and services.

Walls also added that, observation of individuals can both mitigate and create risk, which must be managed carefully to conform to ethical and legal standards.

The development of successful security intelligence and control depends on the capacity to capture and analyze user actions that will take place inside and outside the enterprise IT setting, he adds.

Walls also said that, this practice of asking for Facebook password as part of the job interview in the U.S. will be fade out of fashion as soon as possible.

At present, it has become pretty common for mangers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other social networking sites to know more about their job candidates.

Companies who are not asking for passwords are demanding from their applicants to accept the HR managers of that company as their friends.

And some companies have the rules, where the employees are asked to sign the non-disparagement agreements that ban them from talking negatively about their employers on the social networking site.