If you want to have a secure electronic conversation (and doing so isn’t against the law), use a secure messaging app like Signal. Policies vary around this kind of thing, but the safe assumption is that anyone from IT, HR, or who sits above you in the org chart can read your Slack and email messages whenever they want, and without notifying you. Email like it may one day be read at a deposition.”Īny message you send via your corporate communication tools can be retrieved and read by your organization’s IT department. And when I say “your own copy”, I mean a digital version of the document stored in your Second Brain, where you’ll still be able to access if you were unexpectedly let go.Įvernote, Dropbox, your personal Google Drive, Apple Notes, Notion…it doesn’t matter what tool you use as a Second Brain, so long as you could still retrieve these documents if your organization ceased to exist. This includes things like performance reviews, terms of employment, leases (if you have employee housing), policies, phone agreements…you get the picture. Any time you’re asked to sign something at work, keep your own copy of it. While there’s no point in obsessing about what might go wrong in the future, there are still a few common-sense precautions you’ll probably want to take. You’re feeling great about your contributions, the people you work with, the leadership, the future. If you work at a missile silo, in other words, you probably know which of this advice you should ignore.Įverything’s going just fine at your organization. Of course, there’s a huge caveat here: depending on your line of work, it may be unethical or illegal for you to export documents or data from work to a personal Second Brain. If your work email address gets disabled, you should still be able to access information from your Second Brain.
Its key feature, though, is that it needs to be independent from your work accounts. This is an app or a system of apps where you can store and retrieve information for later use. One theme you’ll see in this post is the need for what Tiago Forte calls a Second Brain. The employee was utterly gobsmacked when, even after giving three weeks notice and then leaving on schedule, they suddenly lost access to those images when their account was disabled. I recall an employee who was using their work Google Drive account to store and share photos from their wedding. Even people who resign, and even ones that give notice months in advance, are often unprepared for the fallout of getting shut off from the corporate network. It’s not just fired employees, by the way. Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat by Simon de Myle
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