I'm lost on the employees needing protection concept here.
If you're going to call your boss an idiot, don't do it with the company tools. That seems like a pretty reasonable boundary to maintain.
I've never thought of much of anything that was my employer's as mine. If I wanted a private email conversation, I'd use my email, same with chatting and etc... that's just smart no matter what the local legal traditions are.
The volume of negativity surprises me if only because there are all sorts of ways to obtain some private channel communication.
Do people need to talk shit about their boss THAT often, but they feel they should use a work provided tool to do it?
If you're going to call your boss an idiot, don't do it with the company tools. That seems like a pretty reasonable boundary to maintain.
I've never thought of much of anything that was my employer's as mine. If I wanted a private email conversation, I'd use my email, same with chatting and etc... that's just smart no matter what the local legal traditions are.
The volume of negativity surprises me if only because there are all sorts of ways to obtain some private channel communication.
Do people need to talk shit about their boss THAT often, but they feel they should use a work provided tool to do it?