‘Is it normal for people to take a screenshot of your direct Teams message, and send it in an email to other people in the company?’: Boss sends out screenshot of direct message with employee, employee wonders if it’s a breach of privacy

Messages should stay between you and the person you’re sending them to. 

Especially at work. Nobody wants to feel like they’re being watched all the time. If you knew that what you said and what you wrote was going to be broadcast to a larger audience, you might have said something different. This is an important lesson to learn, and one that you probably have to learn over and over again. But you should also be able to expect a certain amount of privacy in your life. Not everything has to be everyone’s business, and when you send a private work message, that should stay between you and the recipient. But this doesn’t always happen. Everyone has different expectations about what gets broadcast and what doesn’t, and the employee in this story was facing that disparity between themselves and their boss. Keep reading for more.