Nigel Roberts wrote:
> This is exactly what we do. Work email is @channelisles.net and personal
> email @alderney.com
>
> The advantage for is is that we can prohibit personal use of the work
> address entirely (which otherwise we'd have to allow under our
> equivalent of the LB Regs), as see use of the company domain as
> equivalent to use of the company letter head!
>
> Then again, we are a small organisation.
Another possible advantage is that it makes it a bit easier to deal with
the situation where a member of staff is off sick or otherwise
unavailable. I'd be a bit happier with the sysadmin giving a colleague
access to a 'work-only' mailbox (or pulling out from a mixed mailbox
messages addressed to a 'work-only' address) if I knew the owner had
been given the opportunity to file personal stuff differently.
Of course using 'role' e-mail addresses, like
<[log in to unmask]> is an even better way to deal with that
problem.
Andrew
> Nigel
>
> Kevin Broadfoot wrote:
>> I was recently asked for my views on the usefulness or otherwise of
>> setting up staff personal email accounts on a company's IT system.
>> The company in question is seeking to regulate growing non business
>> use of its email systems by employees. Each employee would have two
>> addresses - something like [log in to unmask] for business mail
>> and [log in to unmask] for their personal mail. The
>> IT department thinks this is a good idea - arguments in favour centre
>> largely around cleaner archiving as mail in the personal accounts
>> would not be retained.
>> Peraonally I can't see the point! I've pointed out that the company
>> concerned is unlkely to be able to avoid content and other liability
>> issues for mail in the personal mail boxes and also I can forsee all
>> kinds of privacy problems - to my mind the personal boxes would be
>> outside the ambit of the Lawful Business Practices. But I wondered
>> whether i) anyone else has come across this sort of approach and ii)
>> have they identified or experienced any particular DP issues?
>> Very grateful for views/comments.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Kevin Broadfoot
>>
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