Who owns your LinkedIn profile?

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Nowadays everyone has a social media account. In some cases employees also use their personal social networking accounts for work. The question now is: who actually owns those accounts?

Even if you’ve never ever used it to manage a company page ‘your LinkedIn account’ may actually belong to your employer based on your employment contract.

“Love it or loathe it, social media blurs the divide between personal and professional communication”, says Linda Graham, founder and owner of FinCommunications.

In a recent article Linda discusses the fuss about ownership making reference to the POPI legislation, LinkedIn terms and conditions as well as company policies.

Click here to download her article.