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by xxpor 1755 days ago
>As an employer I would prefer employees not to use the corporate network for personal email. The network exists for business use.

And as an employee that actually exists in 2021, I'd tell you to get a clue.

>As an employee I prefer not to use the corporate network for truly personal email.

And that's your preference. If you think everyone shares that preference or even realizes the implications you're delusional.

>If I am the employer that responsibly monitors the traffic to and from our network, including TLS traffic, an employee that uses our network for personal use with a surveillance "tech" company service such as Google Mail, Facebook, etc. is putting her own privacy at risk.

No, you're putting them at risk by MITMing their traffic. There's absolutely nothing that forces you to do that. If you don't have separation between the network where humans live, and where The Business lives, that's what's irresponsible.

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... As someone who exists in 2021, I have a smartphone. Why would I want to do my stuff on someone else's machine?
Probably you might need to re-read your employee agreement. Some of these policies are clearly stated and you signed up for them when you are employeed
Don't know why you are getting downvoted and people are getting emotional.

I have family members who work in compliance. Everything is fair game for surveillance. I know of someone who got fired for accidentally uploading his whatsapp chat history via work email (this is how chat history backup used to work) and they got fired from JPMorgan for having references to drugs.

You can choose not to work for companies like this (indeed I have always fully owned my machine at work) but you're just kidding yourself if you think bigco aren't monitoring everything you do.

And the standard startup contract says business hours are "9-5"

The poster's point is that what they say doesn't match reality, contract or otherwise

I doubt he read it the first time. :)