Wednesday 27 September 2017

Your Work Email Is NOT Yours!

Tips for your work email - it is not YOURS.


It can be tempting and easy to reply to anything using your work email.  Common sense indicates to take a deep breath and reflect before you run off at the finger!

While far from resolved, the key points from the current [ September 2017] Channel Seven and Starr cases is that all employees should follow some simple guidelines:
  • Have a work email and a personal email — and keep them separate.
  • Use your personal email for private communication.
  • Don't use personal email for work-related issues — this is something Hillary Clinton and currently Jared Kushner have been reflecting on.
  • Don't use work email for personal communication as your employer has the right to check your work emails.
  • Rule of thumb — if you wouldn't say it in the middle of the office, don't say it on social media or any other e-communication. It is there forever and you don't know how it will be interpreted.
This is the central tenet in the article written by Peter Holland, an associate professor at Monash Business School in the article that appeared on the ABC web site today.

Sounds like good advice, but as a few comments below the article allude, the work / personal space is less clear in today's world. 

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Lots of sensible and considered advice in today's connected world.