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Is you employer legally obligated to give you written notice that they are monitoring your emails?
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∙ 9y ago
You are at work. Expect anything and everything you do to be monitored. They are paying you. Your time is NOT your own at work, nor is anything you produce or do, unless they specifically say that something you’re producing is something you can have for your own personal use, which would be an unusual situation. For example: Perhaps if you work in a restaurant, they might allow you to eat some of the food you’ve helped prepare, once you’re on break, or they may allow you to take leftovers home at the end of the day, if that is their policy. And if it isn’t their policy, then doing so would be theft.
When you are at work, you have hired yourself out. It isn’t social time, nor “deal with your personal affairs” time. It is their time, they are paying you for your undivided attention to be on what benefits the company, and your work email or any email you access while you are on a computer or other device at work is subject to be monitored, as it should be. E-mails should be work related, and personal communication should be done only on breaks, and only on one‘s own personal device, such as a smart phone or iPad. It’s also unprofessional to do otherwise.
It’s wise to not do anything at work that you wouldn’t want everyone to know; or if it’s a job that is inherently discreet, such as with the field of law or medicine, it’s wise not to do anything that you wouldn’t want anyone aside from the normal discretion of your work to know.
And it’s a pretty good rule to live by in life, don’t do anything that you wouldn’t want everyone to know.
The main exception to this would be if you were helping someone, to preserve the dignity of a person, and to keep you doing it for the right reasons, for ethical reasons and by ethical means, you keep it to yourself.
If you’re in a relationship with joint funds, then of course that person needs to be included in those decisions as well, unless you have an agreement that certain level of spending can be done without consulting each other, but again...
...don’t do anything you wouldn’t want them to find out that you did.
So,if someone is even asking whether work has the right to monitor their e-mails, the better question is what is that person asking doing that has them concerned enough to ask? Unless it has to do with a surprise party for the boss...someone might need to brush up on ethics and use of work time and property.
kimn7
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∙ 13y agoNo your employer does not need to inform you that your internet activity or email is being monitored in regards to use of such things on the company computer. You are not entitled to nor should you expect privacy in this case. This has been brought up several times in the past. You should always use the computer as if "big brother" is watching you, this way no adverse actions can be taken against you.
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∙ 9y agoI would think that they have to. But it could depend on the fact that if you r using a work email or a personal email. But i doubt its legal
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