This statistic presents information on the most common ways how employers encourage employees to use social media to share news and information about their employer in 2014. During the survey in 15 global markets, it was found that 42 percent of employers provided their employees with easy-to-understand guidelines for using social media.
How does your employer encourage employees to use social media to share news and information about your work or your employer?
Characteristic
Share of respondents
Provide readily accessible tools for employees to use in social media
55%
Provide messages about the employer for employees to use in social media
50%
Provide easy-to-understand guidelines to employees for using social media
42%
Ask employees to stay alert to social media postings about the employer
39%
Provide training for how to use social media properly
37%
Provide access to social media at work
35%
Provides updates about changes in social media so that employee can stay current on the latest tools and uses
35%
Provide employees with one or more social media accounts to use
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Weber Shandwick. (April 2, 2014). How does your employer encourage employees to use social media to share news and information about your work or your employer? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/295393/social-media-employer-encouragement-and-guidelines/
Weber Shandwick. "How does your employer encourage employees to use social media to share news and information about your work or your employer?." Chart. April 2, 2014. Statista. Accessed August 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/295393/social-media-employer-encouragement-and-guidelines/
Weber Shandwick. (2014). How does your employer encourage employees to use social media to share news and information about your work or your employer?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/295393/social-media-employer-encouragement-and-guidelines/
Weber Shandwick. "How Does Your Employer Encourage Employees to Use Social Media to Share News and Information about Your Work or Your Employer?." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Apr 2014, https://www.statista.com/statistics/295393/social-media-employer-encouragement-and-guidelines/
Weber Shandwick, How does your employer encourage employees to use social media to share news and information about your work or your employer? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/295393/social-media-employer-encouragement-and-guidelines/ (last visited August 24, 2024)
How does your employer encourage employees to use social media to share news and information about your work or your employer? [Graph], Weber Shandwick, April 2, 2014. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/295393/social-media-employer-encouragement-and-guidelines/
