lorah(@lorahmoe):My company once banned employees from taking pictures inside the office because HR said it was a “security risk.” I asked a simple question: What exactly are we protecting? The computers were locked. Screens were off. No documents were visible. No customer information was anywhere in the frame. The real issue, I eventually realized, wasn’t that employees were exposing confidential information. It was that management had never created clear rules about what could and couldn’t be filmed. And that’s the problem with workplace policies sometimes: when the rules are vague, people end up arguing about intentions instead of evidence.

2026.08.11 14:35

My company once banned employees from taking pictures inside the office because HR said it was a “security risk.” I asked a simple question: What exactly are we protecting? The computers were locked. Screens were off. No documents were visible. No customer information was anywhere in the frame. The real issue, I eventually realized, wasn’t that employees were exposing confidential information. It was that management had never created clear rules about what could and couldn’t be filmed. And that’s the problem with workplace policies sometimes: when the rules are vague, people end up arguing about intentions instead of evidence.