Your personal digital identity is what friends and followers see. Your workplace digital identity is what a boss, a client or a placement supervisor sees, and it can sit on the same accounts.
Today you work three realistic workplace situations, then build a sheet of responsibilities: two things the employee owes and one thing the employer owes, for each scenario. That sheet is a practical workplace communication document for your Communication Portfolio.
When you take a job, a placement or a paid collab, a second set of rules sits on top of your personal ones. Three ideas cover most of what changes when you start work:
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Workplace identity | The version of you a boss, client or supervisor can see online. Your personal accounts still count when someone is deciding whether to hire or keep you. | A public weekend-shift photo that appears when a manager searches your name |
| Confidentiality | Keeping private what belongs to the workplace. Customer details, staff chats, passwords and unreleased products stay off your feed. | A staff WhatsApp screenshot of a customer complaint posted to a personal story |
| Data protection | Rules for how personal information is stored and shared. In Ireland that includes the GDPR (the EU/Irish data-protection law). You protect other people's data; your employer protects yours. | Staff numbers kept in a locked system, not a shared open spreadsheet |
Worked example. Aoife works Saturdays in a sports shop. Before opening she photographs unopened boxes of next week's trainers and posts sneak peek, don't tell anyone to her story. The same rules apply on a supermarket Saturday, a hotel placement, or a shop on the high street.
Employee responsibilities: do not share commercial information the shop has not released; check with a manager before posting anything shot inside the shop.
Employer responsibility: tell staff clearly, in writing, what they may and may not post about stock, customers and the shop.
That is the pattern you will use: two employee, one employer.
Work through the three workplace situations below. For each one, choose what you would actually do, then use the think-about prompts. You are noticing responsibilities; you will write them up properly in the next step.
Build your Workplace Digital Identity Sheet here. Under each scenario heading, add two employee responsibilities and one employer responsibility. Use what you noticed in the cards, with Aoife's example as your pattern.
The list is not saved when you leave the page, so copy each finished heading into your work box as you go.
Your work box is your portfolio entry. When all three headings are done, copy it into a plain-text file, name it m2_l33_workplace_identity_<your-initials>.txt, and drop it in your Communication Portfolio folder.
Talk this through with the person beside you, or sit with it on your own:
Which of the three scenarios feels closest to something you might actually face this year?
What one responsibility would you want written down before day one of a placement or a paid collab?
The longer thinking can go in your Reflective Journal later if you want it there.
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