What is Office leaks and how does it work

Office leaks is the new place on the internet for you to go if you want to rant about your boss and grumble about the affairs of your current company. To signup you will need to provide an email ID, password and your companies website address (URL). You will need to provide your official mail ID and office leaks says that that this mail ID goes through a one-way encryption so that even officeleaks employees do not know who has joined. The official mail ID is required to confirm that you are indeed a part of the company and after the first conformation email is sent office leaks will no more have access to your email address. If you however want to join a community or a thread and follow the same will office leaks have access to your email again.


So office leaks does provide a forum for people to join anonymously and leak office info and chat with other employees. All this while being anonymous. Office leaks says that it would be good to be a number for once and forget an online presence with buttons and likes. An avatar is sufficient to browse the site and join in the conversations with other employees or just share what's happening at office without fear of retribution. 
So, once you join there are two options: To update your status or browse further and follow what other people in that company are debating, discussing or commiserating about.


So how does office leaks differ from Wikileaks
According to office leaks other leak site like wikileaks deals with facts and figures and try to determine the truth of the leaks. Office leaks however does not try to ascertain what is true or false it is just a conduit for people to share and and make their own decisions. 


The next update from office leaks will offer the ability for companies to to become moderators of their own sites. For a fee of $100 a month companies can make all of the related posts private and send in inappropriate material to the internal moderators at office leaks for review. Companies however will bot be allowed to delete the thread themsleves. 


To view a sample thread on the site please click here. 


Word of caution: Is Office Leaks really safe.
Check out this bit of information that was sent to use and decide for yourself. This bit of information provided by NilanJohnson.com

A new web service claims it offers employees a “safe” venue for exchanging gripes about working conditions, co-workers and bosses – but does it?  Minneapolis-based startup OfficeLeaks, a workplace take on the controversial WikiLeaks site, touts itself as an anonymous online forum where employees can engage in virtual water cooler gossip, and employers can monitor employees’ online chatter for a fee. Two Nilan Johnson Lewis lawyers, also based in Minneapolis, say the site may be giving a false sense of security. In fact, they suggest employers and employees both stand to lose, with OfficeLeaks remaining the only party left risk-free. Employment defense attorney, Sandra Jezierski, notes that regardless of any social media site’s privacy policy and commitment to protect the identities of its users, employers have had success in obtaining employees’ social media evidence during litigation. Jezierski’s colleague, Christy Mennen, Litigation Shareholder, agrees that documentation from a web site is “fair game” during litigation, pointing to legal precedence from recent cases like EEOC v. Simply Storage Mgmt., LLC and Bass v. Miss Porter’s School where courts compelled plaintiffs to produce their online social media data.  Moreover, employees are not relieved of their obligations to comply with company policies or employment agreements simply because they’re posting anonymously.  The fact that OfficeLeaks users must open their accounts by registering with a viable, corporate email account is also problematic, Jezierski adds.  Employers generally reserve the right to monitor and inspect employees’ corporate email.  By creating an OfficeLeaks account using corporate email, the employee has essentially created a direct link between him or her and OfficeLeaks. 

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