[vidarh]

Then consider that it's mindblowing to you because you're not used to any of the many jurisdictions where there is a legal expectation of (some) privacy at work.

Under European data protection laws, for example, many countries have considered the privacy restrictions to extend to employee e-mail addresses.

This includes Norway, for example, where employees have extensive rights to prevent employers from accessing their corporate e-mail accounts without substantial safeguards to prevent them from accessing personal information, and including rights to be notified where possible, be present, be able to respond and challenge the access etc.

You can find a lengthy (in Norwegian, though Google translate ought to do a decent job) walkthrough of the rules here [1].

Not everywhere treats people as serfs at work.

[1] https://www.datatilsynet.no/personvern-pa-ulike-omrader/pers...