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Click to view AndyHoung's profile Start-up AndyHoung 1 posts since
Nov 28, 2008
15. Re: How to monitor employees EMAIL activity Nov 28, 2008 11:07 PM
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Click to view mediadave's profile Professional mediadave 3 posts since
Dec 4, 2008
16. Re: How to monitor employees EMAIL activity Dec 5, 2008 1:32 PM
in response to: intechspecial
Yes. Exactly.
Without consulting a lawyer my understanding is, as an employee of a company, you are a representative of that company.
The company itself holds the rights to any of the 'going ons' by it's employee's, etc...
I don't think there would be any legal issues in monitoring their emails just as you would review any work, projects, etc...
I know of plenty of companies which have put controls on the internet to keep their employee's on task, so the same should go for email.
Best of Luck.
Click to view lvarchie's profile Professional lvarchie 3 posts since
Dec 17, 2008
17. Re: How to monitor employees EMAIL activity Dec 17, 2008 4:26 PM
I would ask whether monitoring your employee's email is really the issue. In my experience when employees know what there job is and have enough work to do they don't have time to surf or do non-work related emails (sure, you will always have a few). For those employees that don't get their work done on time or properly then that is a performance management issue that you need to take the appropriate steps to resolve.

I would urge you to make sure you are attacking the right problem. Monitoring email only creates a sense of distrust from your employees and probably doesn't buy you anything.
Click to view xenopod's profile Mogul xenopod 109 posts since
Dec 28, 2007
18. Re: How to monitor employees EMAIL activity Jan 11, 2009 3:35 PM
Basic information like to, from, and subject would be in the server logs. Is this an exchange server or some other email solution? If you want to block access to certain websites you'll need to configure your firewall to do that. If you don't firewall web based email systems like yahoo and hotmail then they will have access to those systems and you'll have no idea what kind of email they are sending since they are sending it through that service instead of through outlook.
Click to view Iwrite's profile Mogul Iwrite 1,100 posts since
Dec 29, 2007
19. Re: How to monitor employees EMAIL activity Jan 11, 2009 4:21 PM
in response to: lvarchie
Ivarchie,

Great point. I was trying to get that across in an earlier post - sure you can do it but what is it going to cost you in the long run in morale and trust of your employees? How does it effect the atmosphere of your business or company?

What about cell phones and PDAs? Do you listen in on phone calls made on the company phone? Why stop with the emails and web access?

You are right, people should be looking at the productivity of their workers.
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