Was an Email Read??

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Rebekah

Lets say you are in a position to look at whoevers computers email you want.
Lets say you do not have any kind of receipts set up in oulook. Okay you send
your employee an email and tell him to do a job. The job does not get done
and you ask them why they didn't do it. They reply I never read your email.
So I can access this persons email on their PC, I can access our MS Exchange
server. Basically I have all access. My question is : is there a way to check
when this email was originally read?
 
Don't bother, I bet this person has more reasons for not doing a job than you
have ways of spying on them.
 
FYI - not my request The VP of the company is requesting it. So I would
appreciate only helpful suggestions to getting my job done. However I
understand what you mean.
 
If company policy dictates that employees are responsible for internal
e-mails then you don't need to check. It means the employee cannot use
the excuse "I didn't read your e-mail". That's not your problem that
they don't read their e-mails. It is THEIR problem that they don't read
their company e-mails as they are led out the door after their exit
interview.

If it was the employee's responsibility to use the fire extinguisher
next to them to put out a fire in your company in the area immediately
around that employee but the employee didn't put out a fire with the
excuse "I didn't feel like putting out the fire", are you going to
genuflect to that employee's insistence on not doing their job? Why the
hell do you keep this employed hired at your company if they don't do
their job?

You have problems with management enforcing their policies even when
infractions are so blatant. No technology is going to circumvent their
incompetence as managers.

...
 
I suggest your management get agreement from their personnel to use Task
Requests as a way of delegating work through the organisation. The
ownership aspects and the ability to track work to completion sounds like
what your management want to implement. Emails are not the right tool.

Each Task should clearly state the Priority, Category, Start and Due dates
of the required work.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook

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