Employment and Migration Blog

In Canberra recently, an interior designer was fired from his day job at a design firm after his employer discovered he was using his LinkedIn page to promote the imminent growth of his personal business to a “full-time design company.” The employee had sent a group email to his connections on LinkedIn, including current clients of the company he worked for, offering his services in a personal capacity.

With increasing demands being placed on employee's time and productivity levels in recent years, there is a growing trend for employees to be using their own personal electronic devices (such as smart phones, iPads and so on) as well as other electronic storage devices to enable them to juggle work commitments outside of the office - whether it be whilst working at home, or in between client/customer appointments.