Study: Employees’ online voices outweigh reputational risk

This is contrary to the approach that many companies take, which is to view social media as a risk.

One of the researchers, Joonas Rokka of Neoma Business School in France said in a statement:

We observe an increasing and consistent need to address the heightened role of employees in social media, regardless of whether the company has an official presence there. This need emerges from the fact that employees have a crucial role as active meaning makers and reputation builders in various social-media networks that include customers, colleagues, and friends, and in which the boundaries between work and non-work roles begin to lose their sharp contours. Hence, the ways in which companies balance between managing work and private lives of their employees as well as openness and control becomes an issue that needs careful attention.