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What kind of not okay, though? Is it a faux pas or an offence? If it's a faux pas, the professional outcome is distrust and failure. If it's an offence, the ou
by microcolonel 9y ago
What kind of not okay, though? Is it a faux pas or an offence?
If it's a faux pas, the professional outcome is distrust and failure. If it's an offence, the outcome is legal penalties.
I'm not defending the actions of this man. In terms of his moral, ethical, or social outcomes, I'm sure it's not a good action. That said, I have a hard time agreeing with the legal argument: that the use of LinkedIn turns your personal communications into business communications. This has potential for broad legal implications which have nothing to do with workplace harassment. The use of LinkedIn does not, in my view, turn your personal communications into workplace communications.
- cestith 9y agoI think the expectation is set that it's professional by being on LinkedIn. I think the bigger issue Doe's case addresses, though, is that he was using it to conduct business with her and shifted that contact to unwelcome sexual advances. It being on LinkedIn makes her argument that she expected it to be professional contact stronger I think, but is not in itself the issue. The issue with harassment is, as always, that it's unwelcome and inappropriate to the situation. LinkedIn is just part of the situation in this case.