{"id":3350,"date":"2011-12-07T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2011-12-07T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T22:24:37","slug":"apples-internal-policies-on-employee-social-networking-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/apples-internal-policies-on-employee-social-networking-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 “Apple\u2019s internal policies on employee social networking [and more]”"},"content":{"rendered":"

9to5mac<\/a> (which I never thought I’d ever link to EVER):<\/p>\n

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With some of the Apple news spotlight this week on the firing of an Apple employee (and last month) over a Facebook rant, we thought the best way to clear up this employee\u2019s claims of \u201cunfair dismissal\u201d from his job would be to post Apple\u2019s internal policies on the matter. The internal papers are very interesting, and give a fantastic look at Apple\u2019s perspective in situations regarding employees being terminated over their online actions and more.We\u2019ve got the full run down of Apple\u2019s internal policies on social networking, blogging, speculation, leaking trade secrets, business policies and more after the break.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I still have my Policy & Procedure manual from 2005. It’s really not much different except now Apple allows social networking when they didn’t back then but there are still tons of restrictions. Whatever. It seems like this is the once a year post of how insane Apple is by some blog. I’m not concerned by any of these and neither should you. This is link-bait and everyone should read these kind of posts once and then never read another one again because Apple won’t slacken up on their control over employees. Also, remember that employment in America is voluntary so if you don’t like Apple’s policies, quit or never apply for a job there.<\/p>\n

\u2026also, for anyone saying these are standard at companies; yes and no. These sort of policies exist at large companies but they’re only enforced when you really screw up whereas Apple security is monitoring your social media profiles 24\/7 for anyone that steps out of line. You don’t HAVE to apply for a job at Apple so there’s no point in getting all worked up about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9to5mac (which I never thought I’d ever link to EVER): With some of the Apple news spotlight this…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-S2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2320,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/does-apple-even-have-a-cloud-strategy\/","url_meta":{"origin":3350,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 “Does Apple Even Have a Cloud Strategy?”","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"GigaOM: Apple\u2019s massive\u00a0data center in North Carolina has been in the news of late, prompting morewide-eyed speculation among some analysts about its ultimate purpose. 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