Getting Personal
Protect your company against unnecessary lawsuits by monitoring employee e-mail.
When you provide employees with e-mail, you facilitate more than
productivity, camaraderie and efficient communication. You also
provide them with an easy way to disparage or harass their
coworkers, disseminate tasteless humor, and reveal company secrets
to your competitors. E-mail messages have become a gold mine of
evidence in lawsuits over charges such as sexual harassment because
deleted messages can often be recovered.
Given the risk, you need to be aware of the types of messages
that are floating around on your e-mail system. Employees often
believe their messages are as private as personal letters sent
through the U.S. mail. Indeed, some employees have sued their
employers for reading their e-mail, claiming a violation of
privacy. While courts so far have sided with the employers,
it's best to remind employees routinely that their e-mail
messages are subject to company scrutiny.
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