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If you're in the US, be careful with what you write on a company channel/email. Both Slack and email can legally be read by management. Know someone who works

If you're in the US, be careful with what you write on a company channel/email. Both Slack and email can legally be read by management. Know someone who works at a well known digital radio company. Prior to joining management they were in a coworkers channel where people vented about management, with the exception being them. Upon joining management they were asked why they didn't report on the gossip/venting earlier even though they never partook and it was explained that management was tracking all channels on the company's Slack. Those that were gossiping/venting all got let go

tomduncalf 5y ago
From a quick skim of search results (e.g. [1]) it sounds like it’s unlikely (although not impossible) that they’d be reading private Slack messages as it usually requires a request to Slack who will ask for appropriate employee or legal consent. Of course this could be much easier to achieve (or avoid needing) than it sounds, I have no experience of this. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was more likely that they were either told about the chat by someone, or perhaps saw it over someone’s shoulder or whatever. Still, it’s good advice to treat what you write on there as something that could one day be read by someone unintended for sure. [1] https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2020/1/24/21079275/slack-private-messages-privacy-law-enforcement-lawsuit https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2020/1/24/21079275/s...