Haft of the Spear

You cannot be serious …

I hate to break it to the bleeding edge researchers who will be undertaking this study (or the person who came up with the idea), but people who do all those things are already on the job. They’re called - at the risk of painting with a broad brush - pretty much everyone who has been hired in the last five years (or ~50% of the workforce).

To be sure, people can get a little too open and careless with their online activities and persona, but like any pursuit or domain, there is the norm and then there are outliers. There are real issues and then there is just making stuff up to be a nuisance.

Yes, of course, you don’t want people to get too chatty about work with their cyber-buddy Kumar (or “Harold”) but then you don’t want people like Ames or Montes either. You can’t hire nothing but nuns or alter boys, you draw from the workforce available (or the workforce desired) and you craft policies and build mechanisms to mitigate the risk. That only now, well into the info age, are we studying these issues tells you all you need to know about how much real progress we’re going to make in a 2.0 world (full court media press notwithstanding).