Despite the ever-growing number of social media users, most companies are still vague on how their employees’ use of such sites might reflect on them. Is there a need for proper policies or will the ‘common sense’ approach suffice? asks Caroline Hill

There is a feeling among the growing band of Twitter-savvy senior in-house lawyers that social media discussions are, quite frankly, so yesterday. So you would have thought that the companies that employ them must be queuing up to brandish their well-developed social media policies.