Ever heard this phrase: "Nobody would be stupid enough to put that in an e-mail"?
The phrase should sound familiar. And we all know why we say it —because our work e-mails are reviewable by our employer, producible to the government and reportable on the front page of the local newspaper. At least, they are if you write something extraordinary.
Many employees' computers' friendly log-in screen reminds them of that every morning: "By using this network, you have no expectation of privacy and consent to monitoring of all your activities on this device or related resources … . " Who needs spy balloons?
Work e-mail is typically closely monitored and preserved. Things can get trickier for companies when work is done through texts, social media and messaging apps. They get trickier yet when work is done on apps whose appeal is, variously, privacy, encryption and the ephemeral—messages designed to go poof.
Another level of difficulty altogether comes with employee communications in the metaverse. As companies cross this new digital frontier, they need to understand how their employees communicate in the metaverse and what is, can be, and should be preserved.
Why Preserve Anything Anyway?
Companies need to preserve their employees' work-based communications for many practical and legal reasons. The most obvious reason is purely managerial. Companies and their employees need to know what they've said and done, so they know what to say and do next.
Another reason is for...
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