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Jonathan Lord, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Law, University of Salford

Your WhatsApp messages could get you sacked

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It’s late evening and your phone vibrates with some banter from colleagues. You join the conversation and go to bed feeling part of the work community. You then wake up and have a feeling of apprehension as to how the messages will be perceived.

WhatsApp might have started as a casual messaging app for friends, but it has now firmly become embedded in workplace communication – and increasingly in workplace conflicts, too.

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