"ban personal messaging apps at work"

What does that even mean? I doubt you can forbid the usage of personal messaging apps except in very exceptional cases (like a court room).

On the other hand: Using personal messaging apps for work related information is a no-go anyway because of confidentiality agreements basically everyone signs.

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rock_artist 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I also didn't fully understand if the context is:

- Ban ANY use of your personal chats / device at work (eg. your wife texts you to bring milk on the way home)

- Ban WORK communication (eg. My colleague don't understand recent commit I've made)

So the web really isn't explaining how things enforced or what is being done. I do know of some industries where you put your personal phone when entering specific locations or having stickers on cameras) but here I didn't fully understood the scope.

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inemesitaffia 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yahoo messenger/BBM used to be popular when I was in banking and that's where banking was done. Then confirmed via email.

Now the idea is all banking related stuff is done on approved devices and clients so you can deal with retention(more like deletion) and loss.

And no personal chat clients too. If you're low enough on the pole, you don't even get to keep your personal devices with you.

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tecleandor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Using personal messaging apps for work, for example, sending work related messages through WhatsApp or Telegram instead of using the proper corporate/official app.

You can forbid your employees to use non official apps to send work related messages for privacy, compliance, security and other reasons.

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blitzar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Finance - no personal devices in the office and no personal (or unauthorised) messaging apps on your work devices.

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		I've seen this too in a meta moderation center. They were real sticklers for this. Even personal headphones were not allowed. I don't think this is legal in EU but for that kind of low-level work they tend to get away with that.

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khurs an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Colleagues often setup WhatsApp groups etc so not on company slack/ms teams which will be monitored/loggged