US firms monitor employees' social media after Charlie Kirk killing [View all]

Source: The Times (UK)

Bosses in America are increasingly policing employees’ social media posts to see if they could cause reputational damage to their businesses, the head of country’s biggest human resources association has said.

Johnny C Taylor Jr, president and chief executive of the Society for Human Resource Management, told The Times he attended a meeting with dozens of Fortune 200 companies last week where chief HR officers said their companies were “actively and increasingly monitoring employees’ activity”, including by using generative AI tools.

Employees’ online activity, even when they don’t mention the name of their employer, has become a focus point for boardrooms in the aftermath of the killing of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Workers have been suspended or fired for social media posts about Kirk’s death at companies including Nasdaq, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and The Carolina Panthers, a professional American football team.

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