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How TikTok is upending workplace social media policies – and giving us rebel nurses and dancing cops

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
imageFront-line workers frequently make short TikTok videos while on the job. Tzido/iStock via Getty Images

As the Thanksgiving holiday was winding down, a medical center in Salem, Oregon, found itself in the middle of a frothing social media mess. A nurse named Ashley Grames posted a video on TikTok that went viral in which she mock-confessed to...

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