I&#x27;m kind of appalled by the mention of looking through the team&#x27;s emails and IMs. Is this common practice?<p>Maybe my experience isn&#x27;t representative, but everywhere I&#x27;ve ever worked, we&#x27;ve operated under the assumption emails and private IMs are, just that, private. We know that ultimately management <i>could</i> look at those things, but the assumption has been that privilege is reserved for extreme situations (e.g.  a lawsuit, an HR dispute, etc.).<p>Would love to know how it works elsewhere.