If there were an award for “Careless Use of Social Media,” PwC certainly would have earned it for the firm's role in last month's onstage pileup at the Academy Awards. 1: It's not just Millennials and workplace newbies who disregard their employers’ social media policies and play by their own rules -- it's higher-ups, too. When implementing social media policies and monitoring compliance, companies shouldn’t overlook the conduct of middle managers and executives. Robust social media monitoring programs are just as essential as social media policies. Social media has a "distraction effect."

Source: Forbes March 23, 2017 21:00 UTC