Email gives a business potentially large economic savings in paper, postage and so on. Obviously. At the same time, however there's just as much potential for upset employees to use email at work to leak commercial secrets (maybe by accident), use up work time, complain to outsiders (and the competition), and discredit their employer.

It may surprise you, but one thing your company can do to reduce the risk of this problem is to contract out a good corporate team building program. Two reasons for this.

Firstly, one of these programs can encourage employees to become more committed to the goals and purposes of the business.

The reason for this is that members of good teams are usually friendly with each other, and this makes it hard to turn against them and dislike the team's employer. Also, because a member of a team is usually supported to work well by the rest of the team he feels good about his job -- and therefore towards his employer.

Second, good team building ideas bond team members together.

Even inexpensive programs (like giving each member tickets to a show) members the opportunity to get to know each other. The formal games teambuilding events are best known for achieve the same. And when you know each other better, you tend to stick together.

Now, step back and think about the email that will be sent by teams like this. Will they be the disgruntled, miserable, complaining emails that tranish the reputation of the company? Almost certainly not.

Where a company runs effective team building programs, productivity will normally go up. However, at the same time, these programs can also build loyalty to the business and bring team members together in a way that counters anti-company email propaganda.