Employers have a number of reasons to consider monitoring employee email—more than two million of them, if you ask Chevron Corporation. Recently, the San Francisco‐based oil…
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Employers have a number of reasons to consider monitoring employee email—more than two million of them, if you ask Chevron Corporation. Recently, the San Francisco‐based oil company was required to pay four plaintiffs a total of $2.2 million after their attorneys found email evidence of sexual harassment. The attorneys had found a smoking gun when they located, on Chevron's own email server, an email message that had been sent to a number of people within the company containing a list of jokes about “why beer is better than women.” Had Chevron been monitoring its employees' email, it might have seen the problem coming.
Every year, the business press combs annual reports and finds executives who are grossly overpaid. Of course, it's mainly the people from large, publicly traded firms who bring…
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Every year, the business press combs annual reports and finds executives who are grossly overpaid. Of course, it's mainly the people from large, publicly traded firms who bring home these mind‐boggling salaries. The size of pay packages in most small and mid‐sized companies would raise few eyebrows.