[Riod]

Not talking about employees. You can release whatever message you want internally. It's the external message where upside downside needs to be a consideration. By which I mean whatever you say in email can be printed and quoted. Disseminate the message not email

[exw]

I both appreciate and agree with your point, but in this case I think the issues was that their new CEO had to assume that, given the high visibility of the company, whatever message he was going to send out to his internal team was also going to get leaked to the press.

If you are in that type of situation, you have to chose between your employees and external parties, and looks like he decided that creating a trusted relationships with his employees was more important...

[Riod]

Maybe that was how he was thinking about it. Hope it works out for them. Cheers.