meeting. In a modern enterprise office, it is inevitable that some employees will secretly and frequently chat with friends under the guise of work, or use chat tools to leak company secrets. Therefore, the company will choose to monitor employees who log in to computers and use mainstream chat devices such as WeChat, QQ, Qiwei, and DingTalk.
Article 38 of the "Labor Law" stipulates that employers may collect the personal information of workers, but only with the consent of the workers, and must not infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of the workers. If the employer checks the WeChat chat records without the consent of the employee, it will violate the privacy of the employee, and the employee has the right to ask the employer to stop violating their privacy.
Office computers are the property of the company. It is possible and legal to monitor employees’ chatting behaviors during working hours. Supervising employees’ chatting behaviors can effectively manage employees’ online chatting during working hours, maliciously insulting customers, and even flying bills and leaking secrets.
Companies monitor employee chats, often with the help of computer monitoring software. Just install it on the employee's computer, bind the employee's information with the computer, and the manager can use the computer or mobile phone to log in to the account and view the chat content. But no manager has the time to watch it all the time. Sensitive word alerts are generally set. When an alert occurs, managers can audit the contextual chat content of sensitive words to ensure company information security.
Managers can see detailed information such as the specific chat time, chat objects, chat content, and sent and received files of end users using chat tools, which can not only deter employees to a certain extent, but also serve as a basis for management of employee violations. However, the company is obliged to keep the chat content well and not leak the information to avoid violating the privacy of employees.
The company can only monitor the chat content on the computer side, but not on the mobile phone side. On the legal and moral levels, the behavior of the company needs to abide by relevant laws, regulations and ethical standards. If the company decides to monitor employees' WeChat chat records, then employees also need to have a corresponding awareness of privacy protection, and must abide by relevant laws and regulations and company regulations.