Raju Mathur proclaimed:
> I hope this isn't one of those company policy things where all mail
> received and sent by staff is subject to review by the powers-that-be.
> I had someone else also ask me that same question (management wants to
> keep track of and read each and every message sent/received by the
> scurvy knaves of employees) and I flatly refused to even consider
> thinking of a solution.
Screening all emails is a very short sighted policy. The invasion of
privacy is terrible.
1. What exactly counts as email that is counter-productive to the company?
I am subscribed to various mailing lists. Some of them are directly work
related (mozilla development lists, for example). Some of them are sort of
work-related (linux lists) in the sense that emails I receive from these
lists are not directly related to the work I do but the info I gain from
these lists would be useful to me in doing my job some day. And some are
totally unrelated to work (Simpsons list, for example). I can always claim
that reading the simpsons lists make me happy. And a happy employee is a
productive employee.
2. If someone REALLY wants to circumvent these controls, they can always
use PGP / GPG to encrypt their email. Are you going to ban PGP GPGP at
work next? What if they start using Yahoo mail if you do this? How are
you going to prevent your employees from conspiring against you then?
3. A healthy work environment is built on trust. If you don't trust your
employees, how are they going to trust you?
4. Authoritarian regimes always tend to crumble eventually. Look at a long
term solution.
Thaths
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