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The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools, Second Edition
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The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools, Second Edition

by Nancy Flynn
January 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
9h 41m
English
AMACOM
Content preview from The e-Policy Handbook: Rules and Best Practices to Safely Manage Your Company’s E-Mail, Blogs, Social Networking, and Other Electronic Communication Tools, Second Edition
CHAPTER
9
Content and Personal Use
Risks and Rules
When it comes to inappropriate content, offensive language, and exces-
sive personal use, employers have little tolerance. Of the 30 percent of
bosses who terminated employees for Internet misuse in 2007, 84 per-
cent cited the viewing, downloading, or uploading of pornography and
otherwise offensive or inappropriate material as the reason. That’s a
65 percent increase over the 19 percent of employers who dismissed
employees for the same reason in 2001, according to American Manage-
ment Association and ePolicy Institute research.
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Similarly, of the 28 percent of managers who fired workers for
e-mail violations ...
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ISBN: 9780814410783