If you don't trust your employees enough maintain private discourse, why would you hire them in the first place?
Some companies have more than 10 employees.
Guide to Slack import and export tools
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#392Part of the reason why Slack has been so successful vs. other corporate messaging solutions is that it encourages employees to bring their “whole self” to work. It’s perhaps the most important thing at work to feel like you can communicate easily and without fear of reprisal from managers and in my opinion had a lot to do with my extensive use of Slack. It felt like, for the first time, the communications platform wa…
I agree. It feels like Slack broke our trust. I don't have any records, but do remember slack in it's earlier days promised of not sharing private communication to the employers and sending the logs directly to govt agencies or 3rd party audit agencies.
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#393As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY. Don't get me wrong--it's not like I want to read your messages and very likely won't. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern acc…
So employees can read your private slack right? F it’s really just about creating a safe space, I don’t see why management is exempt.
Typically management is not exempt. If management == admin, then there'll be a user mode in which management uses the app normally, and an admin mode where you do admin-y stuff.
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#395You can tell who here has worked for a large American company and who hasn't. If you've ever worked for a large American company, you know that nothing you do on company equipment or with a service the company pays for is ever private, and you should never assume it is. I'll be honest, I always thought Slack DMs were viewable by the admin. As a Slack admin myself, I always assumed I had that ability. Never used so, I…
It is very odd. We've had corporate monitoring of practically all employee electronic activities for decades. It's enshrined in legislation and tested in case law. The capabilities are built into practically every major business software. There are whole industries built up around it. Yet suddenly everyone is losing their mind over some corporate IMs just because it's Slack?
I feel like I'm on Reddit, not a site ostensibly catering to _computer professionals and experts_.
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Not sure how much compliant this is with the law, but in this case the law should be more protective towards employees. This change is precisely because of regulations like GDPR, among others.
The ECHR said that the employer has no right to access any private employee communication, even if it happened at work. That contradicts what you’re saying quite a bit.
That's 100% incorrect.
https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Press_Q_A_Barbulescu_ENG....
They don't have free access however they want, but they do have the right to access under certain conditions.
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#397Illegal in any country with just about decent employee protection. Looking forward to the lawsuits in EU
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#398This will open up Slack to industries that frown upon creating communication channels between employees that cannot be recorded. http://bizblog.blackberry.com/2015/07/chatrooms-in-finance-w...
Nah. Slack was already open to them. You just had to enable the compliance audits. This is mostly interesting only because it's retroactive. A fact which of course wouldn't matter for anyone that wasn't already using slack.
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#399As head of IT for a company using Slack: FINALLY. Don't get me wrong--it's not like I want to read your messages and very likely won't. But there are times when I have no choice. A few years back, a group of interns started privately harassing other interns via Slack. Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening. We had to make all intern acc…
> Only way to see it was to boot an offending intern from his work station and go into his Slack to see what was happening.
Couldn’t the complainant show their history or screenshots? Going through peoples messages is a bit yuck, even if they are horrible individuals.
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#400Illegal in any country with just about decent employee protection. Looking forward to the lawsuits in EU
Hate to break it to you, but this is not illegal in the EU.