Percent of U.S. companies that have written policies and guidelines governing e-mail use.
26
Percent who have fired employees for misusing e-mail.
Posted by Mikal at August 2, 2004 12:00 PMI'm fortunate enough to have a bazillion e-mail addresses, each for its own use (personal, professional, work, public e-mail on my articles, etc.). So it's never an issue how I use my work e-mail, because I simply switch over to another address (in Thunderbird) when I'm sending personal mails. I can understand why companies regulate the usage of e-mail, I'm sure it can get out of control. Firing people for it...that statistic is pretty amazing. Does it include tracking usage of sites like gmail, where employees might send personal mails? (As opposed to just watching mail sent on the company's servers.)
Posted by: Dina at December 21, 2007 12:19 AMAdd more to that percentage. In 12 years of doing Human Resources, I have fired 5 people for such behaviour, and I have no reason to believe that I won't have more to terminate for that same reason down the road.
Interesting numbers! I like that.
I come for the Four for Friday, which I do every week (rarely on the day it is posted; today will be unusual) and enjoy thoroughly - anything that makes one think is always a beautiful thing.
Many thanks for providing weekly food for thought!
Aislinge
Posted by: Aislinge Kellogg at January 23, 2009 1:40 PM