More British workers are using social networking sites for work-related tasks - but they’re not happy with employers surfing them to dig for dirt, a survey finds.

Forty-three per cent of respondents said they’d feel outraged if an employer used the sites to seek information about them, and 56 per cent said they considered such actions unethical, according to the survey by Manpower UK.

Still, they find them useful: 17 per cent said they use the sites to research potential employers, 17 per cent use them for other work-related reasons and 10 per cent go on to network, the survey found.

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