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Would you expect emails via company mail servers from yourself to a coworker to be private? How about chats using some intranet based tool like MS Lync? Privat
by varikin 12y ago
Would you expect emails via company mail servers from yourself to a coworker to be private? How about chats using some intranet based tool like MS Lync?
Private and direct messages within a company should be thought of as not involving your coworkers, but IT and legal a might be monitoring.
- etjossem 12y agoYou, apetresc, and I are all unusual users - we're thinking about this in terms of network connections. Our first instinct is to figure out which parties in the chain could have stored a copy of the message. The typical user will probably just rely on clues like "private" or "direct" and make assumptions from there. The privacy level of these features can and will be misinterpreted. Read a few legal cases where employee communications are exhibited; you'd be surprised what people say on internal platforms.
- goatforce5 12y agoAny employee is a fool for thinking making permanent records of things using company resources will remain private. You're on holiday or otherwise unavailable and someone needs some details for some obscure project you're working on? Crack open their email! Those accounts and everything else belong to your employer and if it suits their purposes to go poking around your email or IMs, then they will.
- danielweber 12y agoLegally, I like the fact that my employer can pull up all my communications. If there are any HR-level disputes between employees, just pull up the record and look. This isn't necessarily what I want from a personal service, though.