Computer policies used to be fairly simple: no personal emails, no surfing the internet on company time, and especially no porn. Now, with social media and “the cloud,” there are so many more avenues for trouble. One of the more prevalent issues recently has been who owns Twitter followers when an employee leaves. The issue is particularly thorny when the employee was hired to manage the employer’s official Twitter account. The employer will argue that the followers belong to it, because the employee’s job was to send out tweets and increase the number of followers. On the other hand, the employee will argue that the Twitter followers belong to him or her, because they put in all the work to[…]
