Here at Online Business Communications Basics we use the following policies:
SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY
- No employee, except our social media department, should be posting information to any of the companies social media accounts.
- No employee should be discussing company information or business on any of their own personal social media accounts.
- No employee should use company equipment to log onto their own personal social media accounts.
- No employee should use any company logo's or trademarks on their own personal social media accounts.
- No employee should make statements that are detrimental, disparaging, or defamatory to the employer or discuss workplace dissatisfaction on their own personal social accounts.
- No employee should be on their personal social media accounts during work hours. The only acceptable time for employees to be on their personal social media accounts is when they are on their company allotted break times.
- No employee should threaten, harass, sexually harass or intimidate any co-worker over their own personal social media accounts.
- No employee should be using their personal cell phone devices during work time, including calling or texting, unless it is for business or for family emergencies. Emergencies are the only reason to be using personal cell phones during work times.
- Employees who are issued company cell phones are to only use company cell phones for company business, especially during work hours.
- Employees using company issued cell phones should only use them for business related issues. They should not be used for personal reasons including personal texts, calls, etc.
- No employee should use company issued cell phones to access inappropriate web sites or in any way that could be considered inappropriate.
- Employees using company issued cell phones should not use company cell phones while driving, whether they are driving company cars or personal cars.
- No employee should use personal or company issued cell phones to threaten, harass, sexually harass, or intimidate any co-worker during work hours or off hours personal time.
- Employees are to only access their own personal social media accounts on their own personal cellphones(or other personal device), not their company issued cellphones, on company allotted break times, not during work hours.
We have included an article from Hr360 with 7 tips to creating your company's social media policy.
