Your employer can monitor all electronic communication to and from work equipment, especially when it's sent over the corporate network
Nick Sparagis asks a question no doubt on the minds of anyone who logs onto personal e-mail while at work: The Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) scandal has brought to the surface the curiosity I have had for quite a long time about snooping. I know that using corporate e-mail is always a bad idea for personal use, but how about Web-based e-mail programs like Yahoo! Mail (YHOO) or Google's Gmail (GOOG) inside your corporate network? Can a company read these messages also, if they go through the corporate network? How about my instant messages?
The safest assumption for any employee is that anything he or she sends across an employer's network can and probably will be monitored. This is a widespread and perfectly legal practice, since as a matter of law, electronic communications that you create on your employer's equipment are regarded as the employer's product. As a practical matter, however, the level of monitoring will vary generally both with the type of enterprise and the nature of the traffic.
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