First page of results was a woman from my hometown with those same three names that had recently done prison time for money laundering, fraud, identity theft, etc. If they dont, then getting suggestions on what perks theyd enjoy is a good idea. Our workplace has remote sites, about 50 people in one location, and 30 spread out in small teams in different cities. Using Google is not wrong. Its possible they just think management training is a good idea (it is, when its correctly targeted to skill level), or that theres a particular issue theyre trying to address. Assume your manager is smart and go from there. I think the rule to follow here is that if youre uncomfortable talking to a colleague in person about it, you shouldnt be looking it up online. literature. Im black myself, I cant say Ive ever felt the need to look at co-workers personal pages under the guise of safety. Usually happens when someone new gets hired and just want to know a little about them, also use this to look up some minimal information about new clients, etc.. Doesnt employment verification typically include salary anyway? But Im not an HR pro I think the company should give people doing hiring clear guidelines on this. Whats the excuse then? I was really touched when my main office sent me my favorite candy bar and a gift card earlier in the year. The issue comes when your manager has strong opinions about how you should do things that dont match up with reality, and think you have some hidden agenda for having the opinions you do. That sounds perfectly legitimate to me, and I dont think the OP will help themselves by assuming bad faith. Would you make a distinction, though, between the neighbor across the way casually noticing something that catches their eye vs your neighbor across the way camped out by their window with a coffee cup watching you on purpose? Yeah, some people will be searching for it. So I agree to ask at least. I only recently found out that you can send e-gift cards for Starbucks. If they google me to find out what kinds of llamas I have on my llama farm, thats over the line. In the post you cited, the employee had run a paid background check on his new manager. My default is people are hunting (Why? Certain vendors of CVS Health are also required to be trained on the code of conduct. You can do it, but you shouldnt really. You can try to justify it all you want by saying the person posted it to the internet on purpose, but it wasnt for you. I remember how shocked we all were that Facebook was suggesting you put not only your real name and the college you went to, but even your face on the internet. Im a consultant. Hey, i saw someone walk into a gay bar three towns over and snapped a photo of them and thats public right? @falling I 100% agree with you that anything you search or any online activity is not private and being tracked. Its interesting that food and drink are acceptable but not pens. Thats a hard message to deliver as a manager, and Ive seen that feedback delivered passively via training assignments more times than I can count, unfortunately. I work from home (not by choice, theres just no room for us) and while I love some perks of it (save on gas, can wake up later, take a nap in bed during lunch, etc.) that would let people spend the money on food they can actually get in the area they life in. It sucks. I dont think its true that lack of interest in other peoples personal lives, personal habits, or personal history indicates unsuitability for research or investigative careers. Uh.no. Intended coworkers not feeling safe around a candidate would be a good reason not to move forward with them too, though, because you cant complete your work well in an environment where youre worried about your safety or where your coworkers avoid you. I dont want people chastised because they asked me a question they find intellectually interesting. This is true. And yes, we both worked in software for the same aerospace company (different states). The patients were notified. Then the editor (20 years later) decided to put it all out on the internet. So they interviewed and hired a candidate for a licensed position (not a lawyer, but like thatsomething you cant do without being authorized by a licensing body to do it). Stop accepting a bad reality as just the way things are denounce it and dont participate in it. I work with them. So if you google my name and my profession, you will get info about that other person. I wanted to connect to them on LinkedIn. Which of the following are examples of accessing information without a business purpose? She didnt see herself as an ineffective manager, but that it was everyone elses issue. This question was prompted by your recent letter about a nosy coworker. Personally, Id be creeped out by anything more than a cursory google search, but Im not going to kid myself that nobody I know has done more than that. I hang out in communities primarily of LGBT and neurodivergent people and it would be very bad for us to have that information made public. So someone decided I was divorced and hiding it. Maybe its not the right or nice thing to do, but, well, the internet is there, human curiosity knows no bounds, and rabbit-holing is a thing. Oh and also theyve been getting up to go refill their water a lot 15 times over the last two days! But thats because they need to protect themselves from predators. Its not going to change. LinkedIn is fine. I have none, and my one account goes by a different name. How deeply you search also matters if youre reading someones high school live journal or all the Yelp reviews theyve ever written, youre in too deep. It just is. I wonder if it would work for you to have everyone Skype in for a 2 or 3pm meeting thats basically just you telling them how awesome they are, and then giving everyone everywhere the rest of the afternoon off, no PTO usage necessary. If I am having a conversation with people and someone says I wonder xyz and a phone/computer is not readily available I will come back a week later and say remember your xyz question well here is the answer. There were no disclosures. I think the true universal is what Alison picked up on; why are you telling the person youre looking into them? That makes sense to do. Im responding to your criticism of the question asker. Look, we live in a precarious time. Im guessing I work for the same company. So you kind of know them, where you dont know the people at the competitor companies. Hmm. Right?! A friend of mines ex-boyfriend had a blog where he went into a lot of detail about my friend after they broke up. Yes, its reality, but we shouldnt accept it. To HR (because theyre driving this ridiculous policy). He didnt know what we did and didnt care. Ive also found my cell number, even though I would never post that publicly either. You said the OP is looking for plausible deniability because they want to snoop on coworkers. If its public, you are publicly broadcasting it to where billions of people can potentially see it. You raise a number of valid points, but I just wanted to correct what seemed to be a misconception on that specific detail. Our govies wont even eat the free popcorn in our office. It was bananas. Please dont. I think the fact that John and Jane Smith got divorced is public, but not the specific terms of the divorce decree and how they split up the assets. But how good are you at stuffing it all down the memory hole the next day, when youll see them in the hall? While it sounds like an innuendo, I do Google myself on a somewhat regular basis to see what comes up. Especially since so much information that is out there was either not put there with the consent of the person who is being searched on or was made public without their consent. All of which is to say this is probably one of those things thats not one size fits all. Sigh. If I have my blinds open I can see into their windows and they can see into mine. Anything that requires detective work will make people wonder about your motivations. But thats not what were talking about here. Colleagues should never snoop or look up information cvs. I look at their social media, I look up their name to see what comes up on their professional background, I read their twitter feeds, I look at their Instagram and YouTube. (Once he ordered pizza delivered, and it didnt come, and eventually we figured out that he had ordered it at a franchise in the wrong town! Its like reading posts from a dozen people who pick their nose in their car, and genuinely believe nobody should be able to see them. Every few months well go get a pizza together just so we can get our preferred toppings. Yeah. So even though my gut instinct to the title is boy is that weird its what I do if the thing Im curious about is in the arts. And in allowing people to have some privacy even if you can look up everything about them. If the internet only existed for those two things it would be worth it. While I disagree with the norm, I will admit that most people would be freaked out by someone bringing up info they found online. Its very similar to digging for their high school livejournal, in fact. Ive been burned by this habit as well because god forbid someone speak to another human and ask them questions. If so, Im sorry. I assume people do it to me but if I ever did it to a coworker it would make me feel dirty. Now people can find your address (and many other things) with the click of a button. Hey, said it in public right? Im not saying a basic Google search rises to that level just that its publicly available information is not a carte blanche pass. We recently hired an HR gal that I was told was roughly my age and from my hometown, but wouldnt be starting for another couple weeks. But since in your case, a lot of the remote workers arent actually remote by choicelike you said, theres not enough room in the main office for them and so they have to work from elsewhere on campusI agree that you should do something (I like Alisons suggestions), and I think youre a good manager for thinking of it!
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