Checking blog sites at recruitment stage has to come with its caveats

THE advance of technology has brought mixed blessings - it has simplified many business operations but, at the same time, brought a new range of concerns for employers.

Computer systems can now be used, with ease, to send defamatory e-mails or to access "entertainment" of the most dubious kind. As if that were not enough, employers now face the arrival of yet another computer-based phenomenon - the inexorable rise o...