Bosses who look for their future employees on social networking sites are considered unethical by 56 per cent of workers, new research finds.
According to figures from Manpower, 43 per cent of staff would feel irritated if they knew an employer had looked at their profile on sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Bebo, onrec.com reports.
Director of commercial staffing at the firm Jason Greaves comments that many employers will use these new interactive sites in the search for suitable candidates.
"Although the primary use of these sites seems to be for personal reasons, employers and employees alike are now using the sites for work purposes, which can save both time and money," he remarks.
In fact 17 per cent of respondents said that they used the sites to research a company while ten per cent will network and generate new business via such websites.
Research from Peninsula recently found that Facebook costs firms millions of pounds in lost productivity.
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