Do you use your company e-mail for personal correspondence? I know I did (back before the turn of the century when I had a “real job”). It didn’t take me long to learn to limit my personal messages out of the fear of big (corporate) brother. (Not that I was paranoid or anything… d’oh!) There’s one thing for sure these days… e-mail monitoring is a touchy subject among employees and employers alike…

Many employees feel that e-mail is a personal matter and that their employers have no right to take measures to monitor e-mail.

On the other side of the fence, however, a great many employers believe that it is fully within their right to use e-mail monitoring measures. The thought is: if you’re on the clock, you’re on our time and anything you say or do can be used against you when you’re called on the carpet.

I made the mistake of saying the wrong thing on a company e-mail system once…

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