It's a power trip, especially given most employees cross-pollinate their email accounts with personal email either accidentally or because they don't understand

It's a power trip, especially given most employees cross-pollinate their email accounts with personal email either accidentally or because they don't understand the repercussions of doing so. Searching LastPass I (an engineering manager who knew from day 1 this very problem set) signed up to HBO Now and Task Rabbit with my work email - entirely by accident. It's worse in email-obsessive non-technical roles like sales. They can spend 3+ hours per day in Gmail alone and anecdotally sign up for all manner of personal deliveries and dating profiles through that same work email! Ultimately email providers like Gmail should do a better job separating professional and personal accounts and informing their users how little privacy they actually have. I heavily blame GMail's multi-account selection interface and how non-technical users can struggle to change the default account they are logged in under. I think the odds of Google warning users to worry more about their own privacy is slim to none. /rant