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:

1. Employee receives a joke via an external e-mail from a friend
2. Employee forwards the joke to a colleague via internal e-mail
3. That employee forwards the joke to an internal distribution list
4. Another employee forwards the joke to a friend externally
5. The joke is sexist/racist

Your company could be held liable for any offence caused by the joke.