Don’t Use Your Company Email for Personal Purposes

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Do you use your company email for personal purposes? If so, think twice. Then stop.

Your company owns the servers and the emails that are stored in them, which means they can be accessed by your employer at any time. This could lead to serious consequences if you are not careful with what information is shared over email.

In this article, I will discuss why using a company email account for personal reasons is risky and how it can affect you legally. I'll also look at how companies store emails and what measures they take to protect their data from being misused or abused. Finally, I will provide some tips on how to stay safe when sending emails through a corporate server.

Your company email is not private

Having a company email is like having a public diary; everything you communicate can be accessed and monitored by your employer. Emails sent from the company account are not private, so what you write, who you send it to, and even the way you address emails should all reflect positively on you and the company. The same applies to messages sent via Slack or other messaging services provided by your company.