The report (pdf) was conducted for Proofpoint, a company that sells email monitoring software, so it has a vested interest in showing executives that they can't trust their workers. So take these juicy findings with a grain of salt:
- 32.1% of companies surveyed employ staff to read or analyze outbound email.
- 16.9% of companies surveyed had at least one person on staff whose primary job was to monitor outbound email.
- 37% of companies surveyed perform regular audits of outbound email.
- The companies surveyed estimate that 18.9% of outbound email includes content that poses a risk to the company (Keep in mind -- this is what the company's estimate. That's a far cry from saying that 1 in 5 outbound messages could actually bring the company down).
In other words, either companies really do have a lot to worry about, or they overreact to employees' meek efforts to connect in some way with the world outside their cubicles. We'll let you draw your own conclusions.
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7-20-2007 @ 2:44PM
Todd said...
Anyone stupid enough to blog disparagingly about the company they work for WHILE AT WORK deserves to get fired. In fact that may qualify for a Darwin award. People please, blog from home, or with your phone, or the freaking library!
And for you corporate trolls out there, who monitor email, how exactly are you "monitoring" someone blogging on an HTC phone ( with QWERTY keyboard )?
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7-20-2007 @ 4:49PM
Rob said...
@ Todd
Darwin award? Really?... Why doesn't anyone realize what the Darwin awards are? IT'S ABOUT KILLING ONESELF VIA A STUPID ACTION! - Thus it requires the nominee to die.
Not only that, but where does it say that people are getting caught blogging while at work? Chances are the offenders are blogging on their own personal time and violating company policy in one way or another even though they aren't "on-the-clock". Either way, the blogging/message board offenses are pretty small
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7-20-2007 @ 5:03PM
Phatman said...
Not only killing yourself, doing pretty much anything stupid that removes you from the gene pool (i.e. keeps you from having kids) could qualify you for a Darwin award.
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7-20-2007 @ 5:08PM
Phatman said...
Not only killing yourself, doing pretty much anything stupid that removes you from the gene pool (i.e. keeps you from having kids) could qualify you for a Darwin award.
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