Blogs raise workplace privacy concerns but can be managerial tool as well

Blogs and workplace privacy have become a central issue for employers, according to University of Cincinnati Professor of Law Rafael Gely, who says blogs have created a new space—the blogosphere—where employees may communicate about workplace issues and, more recently, where employers have become interested in communicating with employees as well.

It didn't take a university professor to tell us that, but what's more interesting is
a recent study analyzing the content of blogs shows that about nine percent of the comments posted in blogs are related to comments about the blogger's employer. That figure represents a substantially large number of individuals talking about their jobs once they leave the workplace, he pointed out, given estimates of the existence of over 30 million blogs.