Blogging can be sometime very critical to your job. Blogs that hurt the sentiment of the company are liable of face certain charges ranging from disciplinary actions to get fired.

Writing a web log is one of the most popular part in a website. Blogging refers to writing or posting an opinion about anything that may be about religion, education, social problem, politics or personal views to a website. Popular blog sites are Google’s Bloggers .com and LiveJournal.com. It is sometime hazardous to write blogs if it hurt the principle and emotion of whom the blog is written. Certain crisis has been evidenced regarding blogs. Their employers for writing extra severe blogs e.g. Friendster, Google and Microsoft have fired many employees.

In order to make out the truth CNET News.com presents the following list of common questions regarding blogging at home and at work.

Relevance of blogging on career: It is possible that you may lose your job as many big companies like Microsoft and Google have reported of firing their employees for their content against their company, fellow mate or for exposing the secret and embarrassing facts of the organization.

Risk of blogging: As per a research on human resource professionals only three percent of them got fired. And in most of the cases the company teaches the bloggers about what it may result to by his fooling around online.

Could I be fired if I blog from my home on my time? You are safe until and unless your boss doesn’t come across your content. If your boss detects any unacceptable material in your blog then it will be really difficult for him to spare you with your job.

Does it matter where I live? Definitely. In most of the states in US your boss can fire you for what unrelated thing you do during your office hour. Out of 50, 45 states have this provision.

Role of the First Amendment. The congress has resolved to make no laws that restrict the freedom of speech or press. But mind that the congress did not say anything about private firms. Hence, the First Amendment does not take any role to protect you from private employers.

Blogging anonymously. Even if you blog anonymously the website with your blog may get charged with lawsuits or other measures to find out who wrote the blog. A judge of federal government wrote that FBI might also issue a special provision to hide the blogger’s identity if the content is critical to the government.