Consider this: What happened to Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin could happen to any boss across America. It also accentuates how distracting and damaging a single player’s (or employee’s) indiscriminate use of a social media platform can be to the collective efforts of a team (or company). The larger point here is that Brown is not the first employee in America to publicly embarrass and humiliate himself and the company he works for, on social media. Workers are now frequently fired for indiscriminate social media posts. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey titled “Social Media and the Work Place,” 16% of workers asked, said they found information on social media that has lowered their professional opinion of a colleague.

Source: Forbes January 26, 2017 21:47 UTC