41% Of Large Companies Paying Staffers To Read Employee Email

Just another dose of paranoia to send you along into your lunchtime hour...


A recent Forrester Research study indicated the following:

• 41 percent of companies with 20,000 or more employees are paying staffers to read/analyze the contents of employees' outbound e-mail.
• 44 percent of the companies investigated an e-mail leak of confidential data in the past year.
• Specifically, companies were worried about employees leaking confidential information -- "spoilers," if you will -- on blogs, YouTube, and other forms of social media.
• 11 percent of the companies disciplined workers for improper posting on message boards and blogs.

This type of stuff is pretty standard, by the way -- the only twist is adding the blogs and message boards into the mix.

(via CNET)