Embarrassing Employee Blogging And What It's Telling Corporate
America
Nothing has embarrassed and worried corporate America in recent
years the way anonymous employee blogging has. In fact if
executives have nightmares and wake up in the middle of the
night in panic and sweating, then that nightmare is bound to be
about employees blogging some devastating corporate secrets.
These anonymous tell-all blogs always manage to pick up huge
audiences within a very short time. In recent times, internal
tensions within well known companies have quickly become public
knowledge. A few of these companies have made things worse by
firing these bloggers when they have been discovered, only for
them to become celebrities and to quickly land plum jobs
elsewhere, leaving their previous employer suffering backlash
from the public.
But even as we dread the anonymous and damaging blogging, it is
useful to ask a few questions.
For instance, what drives an employee to anonymous blogging?
What kind of corporate environment forces the hand of this new
breed of blogger?
These are interesting questions that should be answered with
great honesty by many company executives in these organizations
that have suffered damage from bloggers within. And more so from
many others who fear just such a repercussion. This is because
many of these blogs are really about ideas for improvements at
the companies. Many of the ideas brought forward seem to be
workable and the sort of great suggestions that many
corporations can greatly benefit from.
While we cannot rule out some of the bloggers being nothing more
than troublemakers, it is important to ask ourselves if we have
done enough to create an environment that allows for the free
flow of ideas from our people without victimization. Or have we
just paid lip service to the process. Why should an employee
with an open line of communication in the company choose instead
to go the route of the anonymous blogger?
There is a lot that anonymous blogging is saying to corporate
America. But are we listening?
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