Sigh – LinkedIn is not Facebook – it ought to be a required application for salespeople!

On the other hand, let’s hope your associates did use their home systems and connect – they should not handicap themselves because $Work has an unhelpful policy. [And let's hope they tie both their work email addresses and their personal address to their account so they don't end up with two - 'eh?-] ( http://www.linkedinpersonaltrainer.com/archives/changing-your-linkedin-email/ )

steve

You are absolutely right that some people are taking anything in front of a judge and what LinkedIn created was a professional network – not a way to turn a trusted business contact into a back stabber.

Last week I got two invitation rejected from business partners who said that their company policy did not allow them to participate in any social or professional networking activities on their work equipment. What I informed them about is that 1,300 of their colleagues were on LinkedIn most likely using their home computers. I have difficulties understanding a dictator approach on something that works both ways = keep an eye on your staff and find new employees when one of them takes the exit strategy.