Coming up in the elevator this morning, I was reading the
"Elevator News Network" (I am on the 60th floor, so it is
hard not to stare at something!). It contained a bit of advice
about Email Use Policies. The advice: Do not allow personal emails
before noon, so as to ensure your employees' most productive
hours of the day are spent on work. Really?!?
In my view, policies are worse than useless when they simply
cannot be followed. No one is going to tell me that I cannot send a
personal email before noon. Well, they can try, but I am not likely
to listen. I suppose that if I was really paranoid that Big Brother
would punish me for not following the no-personal-email-before-noon
policy, I would send the emails from a personal email address or
text from my phone (neither of which options would increase my work
productivity).
