Create an email policy for your workplace and require employees to sign off on it

Email can be an efficient tool and has become essential to workplace communications -- but email also has a dark side. Every email creates an electronic record that could potentially be used in a lawsuit against your company, so it's important to have a policy in place to prevent misconduct. Nolo's Email Policy and Acknowledgment Form provides a sensible policy so that your company reap the benefits that email can provide while keeping the risks to a minimum. 

Use Nolo's Email Policy and Acknowledgment Form to:

• regulate personal use of the company email system
• reserve the company's right to monitor and read employee email
• create sound rules for acceptable content in email messages and avoid employee misconduct
  
• help employees avoid launching potentially crippling virus or other email attack
• make sure employees retain messages as legally required
  

Keep your company and your employees safe with a smart email policy using Nolo's Email Policy and Acknowledgment Form.

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