According to Mark Mendl and Jordan Kirkness (When Worlds Collide: Addressing Off-Duty Employee Misconduct):
Many believe that what employees do on their own time should not be regulated by employers, but the boundary between the workplace and an employee’s private life is not absolute. As recent high profile cases have demonstrated, some off-duty misconduct, such as criminal or morally reprehensible behaviour, may invite discipline or even dismissal of employees.
It is generally accepted that employers can regulate employees’ conduct in the workplace through the promulgation of reasonable rules, policies and procedures. Increasingly, however, employers are facing difficult decisions concerning employee misconduct that occurs outside the workplace.
Explain what you believe are the appropriate boundaries for the responsibilities that employees have to their employer when not in the workplace. Do you believe that when not in the workplace, employees have any responsibilities to their employer? Does it make a difference if the employees are managers?
