Facebook is about to become a true weapon to fight against absenteeism: a recent study shows that 83% of employers regularly visit social network sites, such as Facebook, to check the veracity of their employees' explanations for being away on a sick leave. (Ref. 080731)
According to a study carried out by the Peninsula
cabinet council, 83% of employers visited the virtual profiles of their absent
employees on Facebook to make sure they were actually sick. According to the
same study, 67% of employers sanctioned absent employees after discovering the
true nature of their absence. Indeed, this cyber surveillance is all but
illegal: the Commissioner for the protection of personal data warned careless employees
that they would not be protected by the law in the ca
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