Hi All,

10 Comments

1. AnonymousAugust 25,2024 at 1:07PM UTC

   You can’t do anything about it. Work computers are the property of the company and can audit you at any time. However, it doesn’t mean they always read emails unless they have a reason to. Maybe something happened to initiate this? Ask your boss about it.

2. AnonymousAugust 25,2024 at 1:46PM UTC

   I agree with the other poster who said your work computer and email account are the company's property. You probably signed a release during onboarding, or it's in your employee handbook that you acknowledged and agreed to abide by. It is always best practice to use a personal email account for personal business and never mix the two. It is also not a good idea to check personal email on your work computer, as it will appear in your browsing history. Keep your work computer exclusive to work. If you are searching for jobs, use a tablet or phone that belongs to you, but never the work equipment. I've been the target of the corporate "big brother" before, and it can get ugly. Big data tools can now search for specific phrases in large batches of browsing history, and AI can help them hone in on certain types of activity.

3. AnonymousAugust 25,2024 at 2:08PM UTC

   There's nothing you can do. The c computers are company property. There is no privacy offered on company property so you shouldn't expect any.

4. Jacqueline CutlerAugust 25,2024 at 3:14PM UTC

   Nothing to do. Keep personal emails limited to your personal phone and email and not on company property. It is disconcerting to have someone else reading your email,

5. AnonymousAugust 26,2024 at 2:30AM UTC

   What exactly do you think you can do?

6. AnonymousAugust 26,2024 at 12:26PM UTC

   Were you somehow harmed here or are you just feeling indignant about them invading your perception of privacy? If you were harmed, then I would consult with an attorney. If it's your feelings and perceptions then, as others have mentioned, it is your misunderstanding. If you were using company equipment and a company issued email, there is no expectation of privacy. You need to let it go and learn from it.

7. AnonymousAugust 26,2024 at 12:33PM UTC

   You should always assume the company reads your emails they belong to the company and at work you should have zero expectation of privacy

8. AnonymousAugust 26,2024 at 1:09PM UTC

   Assume that they read your company email (and anything else belonging to company- slack channel, social media account for company, texting from a phone account, etc.).

   I'd suggest keep going as if you know this. The majority of your correspondence will be with colleagues, or clients, or vendors- so keep it professional.

   Don't send anything personal from your work emails. Don't put personal opinions (e.g. gossip) in writing (I'd suggest not doing it at all, but not in writing). Keep a written journal of contemporaneous notes of the goings on in your day.

   If you want- and find the right timing (perhaps around the topic of training, etc.), ask your manager if there are templates for certain email protocol. Ask if emails are monitored and who has that responsibility. That's their opportunity to tell you. If they don't, leave it be (it won't help you to catch them out- and they don't have to tell you).

   Personally, I prefer a work environment with transparency, but I'm not going to know everything. Good luck.

9. AnonymousAugust 30,2024 at 2:20PM UTC

   Most companies have a policy that everything you connect to the work network is open for them to read it. Specially company email and messenger. Is there something that bothers you in particular? Unless any discriminatory action was taken from information found in those emails, I don’t think there is anything to do about it.

10. AnonymousAugust 31,2024 at 4:03PM UTC

    Is there anything in the emails that concerns you? Do note that your company owns all company emails so there really isn't much you can do.