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13th January 2016
09:04am GMT

It all centres on the case of a Romanian engineer sacked in 2007 after using Yahoo Messenger at work to send private messages to his brother and fiancee as well as professional contacts.
His company policy forbid employees from using such apps but the engineer tried to claim his firm had violated his rights to confidential communications, according to a Guardian report.
But this challenge got slapped down by the European Court of Human Rights which said it was not “unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours” and added that the company had accessed messages believing they contained professional correspondences.
So essentially this ruling has given bosses the green light to monitor workers' private chats in work time.
No more slagging off the boss on WhatsApp anymore then gents.