Protect your company from …
- Negligent hiring and negligent retention – when background-checks do not include obvious sources
- Bad hiring decisions
- Claims that protected classes (eg, race) are over- or under- investigated
- Charges that Social Media Background Checks are not consistent
- Claims of discrimination (if social-media sites are researched by your staff instead of a 3rd party)
- Personal use of company time and assets
- Employee/contractor posts of confidential, unathorized or negative information