Work-related Blogs and News

Toby Young has resigned from the board of a new university regulator after more than a week of criticism over controversial comments he mad...

An Australian electrician managed to bunk off work about 140 times to play golf, covering his tracks using a crisp packet to shield an elec...

It’s been a year since social media giant Facebook launched its first foray into workplace communication. Ajai Seghal shares how the Chemis...

Staff are treated as ‘throwaway workers with throwaway rights’ as technology allows new methods of exploitation, a union leader warned. TU...

Uber drivers team up in gangs to force higher prices before they pick up passengers, research has revealed. Researchers at the Universi...

Testimony from those working to keep beheadings, bestiality and child sexual abuse images off Facebook indicates that the support provided i...

An investment bank employee has been investigated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after sharing confidential client information ove...

An employment tribunal held that a long-serving employee was fairly dismissed for making derogatory comments about his colleagues and his e...

The company is accused of breaching labour laws with its internal policy banning workers from writing about workplace concerns.   Googl...

A plea from rail company Southern for beleaguered passengers to tell the RMT union how they feel about ongoing strikes appears to have back...

This report examines the extent to which employers are making use of social media to promote and access employee voice.   Social media ...

Should governments step in to regulate work emails and so rescue harassed staff from the perils of digital burnout?   The answer in Fra...

Employers can read workers' private messages sent via chat software and webmail accounts during working hours, judges have ruled. T...

T he worst case of “work addiction” I have encountered was described to me by an ex-management consultant. A member of his team – let’s cal...

Striking unions could face restrictions on their use of social media, the TUC's general secretary has told the BBC. A consultation d...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has overturned a tribunal decision that an employee was unfairly dismissed after placing an image of a...

An employment tribunal was wrong to conclude that a Scottish Canals employee was unfairly dismissed after he posted Facebook comments boast...

British Airways paid £1m to hush up the details of a spying operation in which the phones and emails of its own cabin staff were allegedly ...

ACAS has recently produced a document on contemporary workplace trends.   Included in this document is a consideration of social media ...

The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in ...

LinkedIn is facing a class action lawsuit in California over its premium “reference search” function that allows employers to identify and ...

An app which enables healthcare professionals to share photos is to be rolled out across western Europe by the end of the year. The app...

"It's not what you know but who you know," is an old saying about job-hunting. In the world of social networks we "kn...

  A Scottish health board has uploaded a short film to video sharing website YouTube in a bid to recruit new staff. The video promot...

Millions of us use professional network LinkedIn as a sales, marketing and database tool, either through personal profiles or LinkedIn group...

A Brooklyn dad claims he was fired from his job as a salesman at Lacoste for posting a photo of his paycheck on Instagram... For more ...

A police officer who reportedly wrote on Twitter that he hoped Baroness Thatcher's death was "painful and degrading" has res...

It would appear that some one at the TUC or who has close links with the TUC has set up a blog to criticise the TUC. The blog is called W...

According to an article in the Guardian yesterday, disgruntled HMV employees briefly took over the company's official Twitter accoun...

According to the BBC News website, a Brazilian police inspector has lost his job after using Twitter to criticise women who worked for hi...

Just seen article in the The Times that is about barristers Googling for information about jurors in order to win sympathy for the people ...

I saw a great IT misbehaviour story on the BBC News website today. Some details: A security check on a US company has reportedly revea...

Looks like employees at DVLA have been up to mischief again! See DVLA: Seven staff suspended for posting "inappropriate" Facebo...

Many work blogs are renowned for being written in an anonymous fashion. An article and radio programme by an anonymous blogger has recent...

There was an article in The Guardian today about an award winning police blog. The blog is called Mental Health Cop . The award is by M...

This post is on a topic that deviates somewhat from what this blog is typically based on. Myself and colleagues at Heriot-Watt University ...

It's been a while since I last posted on here.   An article in The Guardian grabbed me today: MP demands apology after abusive twe...

Just heard of a story from the USA where someone who had just got a new job had the offer rescinded after posting details of the offer on h...

This is a story big in the news today. Here the employee side of the dispute through this video produced by the UNITE trade union.