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IIRC Danish law states that work email may be used for private purposes and that anything clearly labeled as private is to be considered such. For example, by m

by MadsRC 4y ago

IIRC Danish law states that work email may be used for private purposes and that anything clearly labeled as private is to be considered such. For example, by moving email to a folder called “private”. For the employer to open/read such communication would be highly illegal, akin to opening others private snail mail. I do believe that this also extends to corporate issued phones and computers. Especially since you’re automatically taxed for “private use” of such equipment when assigned.

lazide 4y ago
That doesn’t apply at all here?
- stareatgoats 4y ago
  > here I think you need to specify "here" to get an answer to that question.
  - lazide 4y ago
    The thread we are in about companies monitoring people accessing Glassdoor and penalizing them in various ways for using it to say things the company doesn’t consider flattering. That has nothing to do with putting private email in a private folder on the company mail server, near as I can tell, and nothing in that statement would address the statement about companies monitoring use of company equipment and network etc. Since they’d need to know even in the private email case what they folder names were, for instance, to know there even WAS private email.
chii 4y ago
> Especially since you’re automatically taxed for “private use” of such equipment when assigned. so you get charged a tax when an employer gives you equipment required for work? What happens if you can't afford that tax then? This feels very wrong - taxing someone for a potential benefit when it is not proven that such benefit exists.
- beagle3 4y ago
  In Israel, if you are assigned an employer car, you generally have to prove you don’t make personal use of it to avoid taxation - e.g. prove it isn’t in use almost every weekend (usually done by parking in a managed lot and showing the receipts or stuff like that). The vast majority of people prefer to also use the car privately, and pay the tax (which is reasonable, if taxation is reasonable). Cars that keep rotating between drivers are not subject to that (but exact record keeping of driver and trip required to avoid tax) Similarly, employer provided phone subscription is assumed to be partly private use (50% of monthly subscription cost considered a a taxable benefit iirc), not sure what hoops you need to jump through to prove it is not private use at all. (But phone plans are cheap - excellent domestic plans are $10 or so)
- wickedsickeune 4y ago
  It's up to you if you want to use company provided equipment for personal/private use or not. If you declare that it's only used for work purposes, there is no tax. The tax makes sense, because it's effectively extra salary (eg if the company gave you a leased car).
- geysersam 4y ago
  > so you get charged a tax when an employer gives you equipment required for work? Obviously this only happens when the equipment you get can plausibly be used for personal purposes. Such as a company car. > What happens if you can't afford that tax then? That's extremely unlikely.

by MadsRC 4y ago

lazide 4y ago

That doesn’t apply at all here?

stareatgoats 4y ago
> here I think you need to specify "here" to get an answer to that question.
- lazide 4y ago
  The thread we are in about companies monitoring people accessing Glassdoor and penalizing them in various ways for using it to say things the company doesn’t consider flattering. That has nothing to do with putting private email in a private folder on the company mail server, near as I can tell, and nothing in that statement would address the statement about companies monitoring use of company equipment and network etc. Since they’d need to know even in the private email case what they folder names were, for instance, to know there even WAS private email.

chii 4y ago

> Especially since you’re automatically taxed for “private use” of such equipment when assigned. so you get charged a tax when an employer gives you equipment required for work? What happens if you can't afford that tax then? This feels very wrong - taxing someone for a potential benefit when it is not proven that such benefit exists.

beagle3 4y ago
In Israel, if you are assigned an employer car, you generally have to prove you don’t make personal use of it to avoid taxation - e.g. prove it isn’t in use almost every weekend (usually done by parking in a managed lot and showing the receipts or stuff like that). The vast majority of people prefer to also use the car privately, and pay the tax (which is reasonable, if taxation is reasonable). Cars that keep rotating between drivers are not subject to that (but exact record keeping of driver and trip required to avoid tax) Similarly, employer provided phone subscription is assumed to be partly private use (50% of monthly subscription cost considered a a taxable benefit iirc), not sure what hoops you need to jump through to prove it is not private use at all. (But phone plans are cheap - excellent domestic plans are $10 or so)
wickedsickeune 4y ago
It's up to you if you want to use company provided equipment for personal/private use or not. If you declare that it's only used for work purposes, there is no tax. The tax makes sense, because it's effectively extra salary (eg if the company gave you a leased car).
geysersam 4y ago
> so you get charged a tax when an employer gives you equipment required for work? Obviously this only happens when the equipment you get can plausibly be used for personal purposes. Such as a company car. > What happens if you can't afford that tax then? That's extremely unlikely.