Think Before You Send: Employee E-mail Ethics in the Workplace Training Program
Are you doing enough e-mail risk training?
Can you improve your corporate governance of e-communication?
Are your employees creating liability for your organization by sending inappropriate e-mails?
Is your organization doing enough to protect itself from becoming the next victim of e-mail carelessness?
Electronic Discovery is the biggest development in corporate litigation in decades. E-mail surveillance products can now easily scan millions of e-mails, including their attachments, to gather ammunition in a court battle.
You must be aware that it is now likely that your
organization’s e-mails will be reviewed during litigation.
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"The program is the first we've seen addressing such a comprehensive array of false assumptions about e-mail that are common in the workplace, assumptions that can cause serious trouble for an employee or company, ranging from lawsuits to public relations disasters.
Since most employees don't realize that sending and receiving e-mails creates permanent records, this program is an efficient and consistent way to sensitize them to appropriate e-mail practices. Employees can also relate to the realistic scenarios, which reinforce many do's and don'ts."
- Human Resource Executive
Think Before You Send: A Practical Guide to E-mail in the Workplace is customized to your organization!
- Include your organization's Logo.
- Include your organization's Electronic Communicatons policy in the training.
- Include a message from the President, CEO and/or other member of upper management.
- Electronically record and track employees' progress.
Lesson Objectives/Learning Outcomes
- Encouraging employees to think carefully before sending e-mails.
- Explaining how e-mails can come back to either haunt you or help defend you.
- Emphasizing the need to keep a professional tone to your organization's e-mail.
Course Authors
Eric Rosenberg, Esq.
Eric is President of LitigationProofing, LLC. Mr. Rosenberg's risk management experience draws upon his 20 years as a litigation manager at Merrill Lynch, 10 years in private practice at a major Wall Street law firm, and years of lecturing on reducing corporate litigation liability. Mr. Rosenberg is available to consult with you about your e-mail policy as well as your organization's obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and corporate prosecution and sentencing guidelines.
Robert D. Lipman, Esq. and Allison Plesur, Esq.
Bob and Allison are the principals of HRTrain and employment law litigators. Mr. Lipman and Ms. Plesur have worked with electronic discovery issues in employment law litigation and have seen firsthand how thoughtless e-mails have impacted many legal matters.
