"stay away from ephemeral messaging for work purposes" is the part I found interesting. First, does Workplace chat (including video chat) count as ephemeral me

"stay away from ephemeral messaging for work purposes" is the part I found interesting. First, does Workplace chat (including video chat) count as ephemeral messaging? Or IRC? Because those are how most work gets done there. Remember that big outage a few weeks ago? One of the reasons it took so long to fix is that normal lines of communication were cut. If this edict were rigorously followed, this would cripple operations (especially involving remote workers which I suspect is the real point). Second, speech is a form of ephemeral messaging but I doubt they mean to discourage that. In fact, normal practice at companies worried about legal action is to encourage non-recorded communication. If they discourage one form of communication because it doesn't leave a record, but say nothing either way about another form of communication that also doesn't leave a record, they've achieved nothing at all.