This is inspired by an article over at Worse Than Failure.
If you really want to fail at email monitoring, here are some ideas:
- Don't tell the employees.
- Don't create any policies that outline acceptable use.
- Don't create any policies that outline acceptable monitoring.
- Make sure the monitoring is as intrusive as possible, bonus points for trying to be covert, but telegraphing everything to the people being monitored.
- Cause mail delays or blockage.
- Be inconsistent.
- Use people to review every email-- better yet, outsource it to somewhere that doesn't care about your intellectual property.
- Implement it without much thought towards what you wish to accomplish, a vague feeling of "we should be monitoring" is enough to start.
- Don't talk to the HR department.
- Don't talk to the Legal department.
- Don't talk to IT, just foist it upon them at the last possible moment.
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