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Labor/Employment

Oct. 14, 2014

Workplace texting creating a growing list of implications

A review of the laws implicated by the increasing prevalence of texting in the workplace.

Andrew J. Hoag

Associate
Fisher & Phillips LLP

Email: ahoag@fisherphillips.com

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The ubiquity of cellphones and texting is changing certain aspects of the employment environment and the nature of the employer-employee relationship. "Texting" - "the action or practice of sending text messages" - as a form of communication is not new. But its societal prevalence (reflected in the relatively recent use and lexicographical acceptance of "text" and "texting" as verbs) and social acceptance brings new challenges for employers.

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