🕵 Employee Privacy

WORKSPACE PRIVACY

It is ReadMe’s goal to monitor or track our employees in as few ways as possible. We want ReadMe employees to feel a sense of ownership toward their personal workspaces and be comfortable at the office. However, in order to ensure the safety and wellbeing of ReadMe employees, company property (e.g. desks, laptops, and other devices) is subject to search. For instance, this might be used if management learns that an employee has brought a gun to work or has stolen company property.

This means that while the company will always try to respect employee privacy, employees do not have a right to privacy in their workspaces in any property that belongs to ReadMe. ReadMe reserves the right to search company property at any time, without warning, to ensure compliance with our policies, including those that cover employee safety, workplace violence, harassment, theft, and possession of prohibited items.

EMAIL, SLACK AND INTERNET PRIVACY

ReadMe email, Slack and Internet are not being actively monitored by anyone, but because they are company resources that are managed according to company policy, you should not expect privacy from them. The company has both the ability and the right to look at employee usage for both in order to protect employee safety and wellbeing, as well as company property and interests.

USE OF EMAIL/SLACK FOR PERSONAL EMAIL

Email and Slack is intended for official Company business. If you send personal messages through the Company’s systems, you should exercise discretion as to the type of messages you send.

ALL CONDUCT RULES APPLY TO EMAIL/SLACK

All of our policies and rules of conduct apply to employee use of email and Slack. This means, for example, that you may not use the email system to send threatening messages; or to reveal company trade secrets.

PROFESSIONAL TONE AND CONTENT

When you send email using a ReadMe email address or ReadMe social account, you are representing ReadMe. Make sure that your messages are professional and appropriate, in tone and content. Although email or social media may seem like a private conversation, they can be printed, saved, and forwarded to unintended recipients. You should not send any email/message/update/etc. that you wouldn’t want our team, your family, or our competitors to read.