Posts Tagged ‘email’
Should Workers Be Paid for Answering Emails After Hours? (2023)
In today’s high-tech world, a constant connection to the web and phone comes at a price for workers: all too often, the office comes home with you. A Pew Internet & American Life Project 2008 study entitled “Networked Workers: Most Workers Use the Internet or Email at their Jobs, but They Say These Technologies are…
Read MoreCan My Employer Monitor My Web Surfing or Emails at Work? (2023)
Absolutely, yes. And what’s worse, they probably are. Employee surveillance has never been easier thanks to advances in technology and the emergence of computers and the Internet. Employers are taking advantage like never before. According to a recent survey conducted by the
Read MoreThou Shalt Not Send Emails from the Office
Does your employer have a policy that employees have no property right in their emails? If they’re like most employers, then the answer is probably yes. Then watch out. In New York, a judge ruled that a hospital’s email policy means a doctor’s emails to his lawyers are not protected by attorney-client privilege. Normally, communications…
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