EntertainHR: Tick tock, TikTok: Why Employers Should Evaluate Social Media Policies
TikTok is home to many viral video trends, including “day in the life” and “story time” videos. “Day in the life” videos frequently contain short, collected clips of a user’s day with music, text, or voice-overs explaining their day-to-day roles (and possibly their workplace). For example, a “day in the life” video may feature an attorney badging into their office building, walking to their office, getting a cup of coffee, and sitting down at their desk to work on a brief. “Story time” videos are often first-person videos of an individual explaining something that happened to them at work and are typically filmed outside the workplace and not in uniform. For example, a “story time” video may feature a worker in their living room explaining a story about a “crazy customer” or about their “bad coworker’s” behavior that day. While the risks of social media in the workplace may seem obvious to some, platforms are complicated to navigate as it appli...