Since social media hit the front page almost a decade ago many employers have debated allowing employees’ full social media access. Nowadays many companies even have social media policies governing the ways that an employee can access social media in the work environment and whether they can at all.

For a lot of businesses the idea of social media at work is about a line. Unlike telephone use, where the odd personal call is generally okay, social media use is a little more covert – that doesn’t mean it can’t be tracked. This means that there has to be a balance and respect between the employer and the employee.…