Privacy in the workplace is a huge issue. Many reasons contribute to this issue's rising importance.

There are few if any clear-cut rules clearly communicated and accepted in the business community.

The management for each company defines employee privacy according to its convenience.

And too often the employees hear about it according to the company's convenience.

And neither wants to discuss this elephant sitting in their offices, residing in their emails, dancing on their Facebook and Twitter and blogs, on and on.

This elephant will only grow. Here's why:

  • The boundary between personal and corporate brands will continue to blur.
  • The number of tools and resources and communities where this blur happens will continue to grow.
  • Corporate brands are taking baby-steps in letting go. That means allowing more personal, unscripted, interactions among their stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, vendors, partners...

The irony in all this is as many of these same companies embrace social media and online communities, professing a love for open and transparent management, they are instituting stricter and more rigid policies for their employees and their activities at the workplace.

It's going to be a rocky ride.

Do you have any ideas to make it smoother?


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