Ivanka Trump work email debacle offers perfect HR case study

For detractors of President Trump, news that his daughter and senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump has been using her personal email account for Government work will be politically-charged catnip.

Especially as Trump ran a not-insignificant part of his ultimately successful Presidential campaign on the admonishment of Hilary Clinton over her usage of a personal email address for official Government business.

The irony is probably tasting very sweet right now for the US President’s opponents as facts about the White House employee using a personal email account to send hundreds of work messages make news headlines across the globe.

However, for HR practitioners the reports hold an altogether different meaning – with the news acting as an exemplar case on data protection, work-life balance and compliance.