Online forums where anyone can post comments, reviews, or opinions about a company are growing in popularity. As a result, employers are finding postings by former employees who may have left on “bad” terms and now share their unhappy feelings with the world. Often such postings – while annoying and potentially embarrassing – are well within an employee’s rights. Companies need to remember that the former employee will likely soon grow tired of the cyber smear campaign, and such posts do not often cause meaningful damages (particularly the type that can be proven in court). Additionally, where such posts are on sites like Twitter or Facebook, the daily volume of postings means that any bothersome posts get moved down the feed pretty quickly. Most of the time the employer’s best bet is to follow the advice of Disney’s “Frozen” and just “Let it Go.”
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