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22 April 2016
Issue: 7695 / Categories: Features
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Book review: Social Media in the Workplace

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"This is an excellent resource for both employment law practitioners and HR to enable them to advise upon and handle the social media phenomenon"

Authors: Chris Bryden & Michael Salter
​Publisher: Jordan Publishing
ISBN: 9781846618987
Price: £65

Social media plays such an important part of peoples’ lives, including in the workplace, that it is surprising that that there has be no definitive work on its employment law issues. There have been many articles focusing on recent cases and narrow issues—but nothing which pulls it all together. At last we have it. Social Media in the Workplace by Chris Bryden and Michael Salter fills that gap admirably. It is, as its sub-title states, first and foremost, a handbook; and so will be of considerable practical use to both employment law practitioners and HR.

Key issues

The initial chapter gives an overview on the key issues to give the book some useful context, including the kind of behaviours through use of social media which are likely to have workplace ramifications, the dividing line between personal

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