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Boss accessing your emails
Topic Started: Apr 14 2008, 06:56 AM (385 Views)
Minuet
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Dandandat
Apr 14 2008, 11:36 AM
ds9074
Apr 14 2008, 11:33 AM
As a matter of politeness I would expect my boss to ask me first, however I would have no problem giving access.

After you erased all elicit martial :P

Which is precisely why they shouldn't have to ask first.

But it should be made clear when you sign your contract to work that they have this right. Employees do have rights and I do think it would be wrong to give the impression that anything goes and then suddenly crack down unexpectedly.

Addleconfusion - I don't think this has anything to do with socializing with your co-workers. You seemed to be making a specific complaint about people crossing over a specific line. People socialize by going out to lunch, or for a drink after work. I don't consider sending unwanted email - especially of a religious nature - to be "socializing". Quite the opposite. One should be able to do their work without being proselytized. Religion is a private thing. If you choose to share your background with your fellow workers that is one thing. But attempting to convert them is quite another.
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HistoryDude
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But it should be made clear when you sign your contract to work that they have this right. Employees do have rights and I do think it would be wrong to give the impression that anything goes and then suddenly crack down unexpectedly.


This is important. It must be in the employee handbook. Our company has it and we have to sign the handbook before we begin work to acknowledge that we read it. Any subsequent revisions must also be signed off on by all employees, so that they are aware of it.

With the explosion in the use of e-mail and internet in the workplace over the last 10 years, this issue is being addressed now and being including in employee handbooks.
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24thcenstfan
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They own the company. They own the equipment. They should have a right to access company e-mails.

Installing software that will capture your comments in non-company e-mail (e.g. your Hotmail account) is a grey area. One that I think might be going too far.
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I wish my life was exciting enough to care whether the boss might intercept a top secret email
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