In yet another sign that Facebook intends to be a player in Washington, D.C., the company is welcoming a number of new hires to its office in the nation’s capital.

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If your company’s employees are active social networkers, the viral nature of status updates and links can create a human resources nightmare –- especially when those employees are disgruntled.

How far can a company go to prevent or discover problematic posts?

Beware of Gag Orders

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It seems that Facebook employees may be leading a growing trend in Silicon Valley: Cashing in on their soaring stock shares before a feared tech bubble crash wipes away their liquidity as it did to so many a decade ago.
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Facebook has been poaching one Googler after another. The latest is  Ji Lee, the creative director at Google Creative Labs, who will now become the creative director at the social network.

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Facebook plans to recruit an additional 100 employees in the Dublin, Ireland office, bringing total staffing up to 300 in the company’s headquarters for European, Middle Eastern and African sales.
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Aditya Agarwal, Director of Engineering at Facebook, announced that Friday will be his last day at Facebook via a blog post on his profile earlier this week.
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Seems the technology revolving door has turned again. Yesterday we told you how former Gmail creator and Facebook CTO Paul Buchheit was leaving Facebook in order to become a partner at YCombinator, the Silicon Valley startup funding firm.
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Today Paul Buchheit confirmed to Venturebeat that he’s indeed leaving Facebook in order to become one the new partners at YCombinator, the hot Silicon Valley startup incubator.
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It’s now common for employers to research job applicants online – seeing what turns up on a Google search, perusing LinkedIn profiles and, if they can, checking out Facebook accounts. But the German parliament is not happy with this state of affairs, reports German news site Spiegel Online. The government has drafted a new law that would make it illegal for companies to check out the Facebook profiles of candidates.
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Facebook recently won plaudits as the best tech employer but that doesn’t stop people leaving. Liz Gannes at GigaOm has written a fascinating post charting all the early employees now leaving Facebook and the various reasons why. Although Facebook is now six years old, the notable fact is that the company is yet to go public so early employees have not been able to cash out stock options in an IPO.
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