August 3rd 2010
I work as a product engineer in an electronics company. On the other hand, I keep a personal blog (intellectualjerkoff.blogspot.com) and design websites on request. What details should I put in my email signature? Our company guidelines don’t say anything about email signatures.
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Posted in Personal Finance | 4 Comments »
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Generally speaking, you do not want to add anything about your personal business in your company signature. Most larger corporations frown upon it.
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:14 pm
May I suggest setting a separate email address to keep the business and side biz apart? Then you can have one email signature for each, and with at least your contact information included.
August 5th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Even though your company doesn’t provide guidelines it would be inappropriate to reference you personal blog in the signature for you company e-mail.
August 7th, 2010 at 11:45 am
you should have a separate ’signature’ for each purpose. When you are writing a work related email (for your employer) you use the work one with your tile (Joe Smith, Product Engineer, XYZ Corp). When you are responding to something about your blog or your side business, you use that signature (Joe Smith Joe’s Web Design, IntellectualJerkoff.blogspot.com)
Your company guidelines might not say anything about your email signature, but I’d guess that if you start using your side business name in your signature, someone is going to have an issue with it and complain (rightly) that you are using XYZ Corp. resources to promote your own side business, and I doubt that would go over well with XYZ Corp.