The company regularly joins product development consortia that operate under contracts, making each consortium member liable for all members' design drawings. The review was intended to ensure that consortia documents were secure within Parker's company. Parker and crew investigated every possible avenue by which people and information moved in and out of the company. The one place we had no security checks and balances was our E-mail. Although Parker's primary policy concern is security, that is just one of the many issues driving companies to consider instituting acceptable use policies.
Resource management is a top priority for many companies, according to industry analysts.
Mass. And when hard drives fill up, companies pay the price in terms of the costs associated with adding more hard disk space, as well as the performance hit the E-mail system takes when it is operating at or near capacity. A system can quickly bog down under the weight of Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, as well as Dilbert cartoons, Fantasy League rosters, and lunch invitations accidentally sent to every employee of a multinational company. Harassment may take the form of one employee E-mailing offensive material directly to another employee. The harassment may also be indirect or unintentional, such as when an employee discovers offensive material being E-mailed between two other employees. Lost personal productivity is a third point of concern at some companies.