Old wine in new bottles? Regulating employee social media use through termination of employment law: A comparative analysis

The explosion in social media usage and ease of access to instant communication provided by new technologies presents employers and business with benefits and problems. The literature on new technologies and the workplace is replete with employer unease about employee use of social media. The most prominent of these apprehensions concern what has been described as ‘cyberslacking’ or ‘cyberloafing’, and reductions in concentration and workplace...