Organizations and individual employees are facing litigation arising out of the illegal use of their e-mail systems. Messages that employees thought had been deleted are being discovered in back-up tapes and elsewhere by high tech detectives and used as evidence in lawsuits. Productivity is being negatively impacted as employees use their e-mail for personal communication, to send jokes to their co-workers or to "flame" those they don't like. These short dramatizations explore these issues.
Key Learning Points
- How e-mail works and what privacy you can anticipate
- What if any personal uses of an organization's e-mail are appropriate
- Some of the rules of e-mail etiquette
- The illegality of e-mail harassment
- Confidentiality concerns