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Employees bashing other employees on a company MySpace page: What now?

Question: “Our company has a MySpace page and employees are invited to join. One associate made derogatory comments about a co-worker on his MySpace page, which turned up on the company page. We have clients reviewing this site. How should we handle it? What etiquette tips can we share with associates? Can the company or the employee request that the negative comments be removed?” — Anonymous

 

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5 Responses to "Employees bashing other employees on a company MySpace page: What now?"

 
Fellow Admin Asst
said this on 07 Aug 2009 3:30:00 PM EST
My Space pages are public documents for anyone to view - that means your HR department needs to review it. It is NOT acceptable to place derogatory remarks regarding your workplace or employees. It was not very smart or professional of whom ever did this. Is the person the remarks are made about aware of them? You, or the employee spoken badly about, can take this to HR and this person can probably be reprimanded for harrassment and possible slander. It does not matter that it did not take place at work.

 
Liza
said this on 07 Aug 2009 3:30:04 PM EST
Bluntly put; that's what you get when you have a 'professional' page on MySpace. MySpace is not know for its professionalism anymore, go somewhere that can of more use, especially for clients. LinkedIn would be good, or a regular www website as well.

In addition, the employee needs to know that is not appropriate and needs to be reprimanded and removed from being able to take part on the website.

 
Barb G
said this on 07 Aug 2009 4:02:06 PM EST
An employee's comments on his personal page would not "show up" on your company's page. That is not how Myspace works. If you meant other people have gone to his page and found it, you might have to deal with it as any other HR issue. If mentioned to him, he might take the comment down willingly if he knows it hurts your reputation and/or the employee's. Did you have him sign anything against slandering the company when you hired him?

My 2 cents is that a facebook or twitter account would be more valuable to a business than a myspace page.

 
BJ Hadman
said this on 19 Aug 2009 1:44:16 PM EST
Absolutely can remove negative comments; particularly if there is an I/T Protocol / Best Practices in place (which most companies now have). Negative comments should be made in person with an H/R rep present, particularly if concerns are work-situation related. The company owns the site whether they are asking employees to feel free to share and make comments. When protecting clients and customers, the employer rules.

 
BJ Hardman
said this on 19 Aug 2009 1:45:16 PM EST
Correction on my name - apologies!




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