free small business advice & information
Main Menu
Hot Links
Page 7 of 9
Hints and Tips for E-mail Policy
Personal e-mail
Many companies allow staff to use company e-mail systems for 'reasonable' personal use. The only yardstick that you can use to measure 'reasonableness' is common sense.
Such an approach is difficult to police consistently, for example:
- Employee receives a joke via an external e-mail from a friend
- Employee forwards the joke to a colleague via internal e-mail
- That employee forwards the joke to an internal distribution list
- Another employee forwards the joke to a friend externally
- The joke is sexist/racist
Your company could be held liable for any offence caused by the joke.
This information based on Crown Copyright 2003
Labels: Email & Website
Monthly Prize Draw!
Win £375 worth of advertising for your business.
Enter our competition by either:
- Signing up to the is4profit Small Business Newsletter or
- Entering your firm's details into the Small Business Directory