Communication | Worker blames autocorrect for 'racist' email

Emailing colleagues is a core part of working in an office. This can be used to liaise with colleagues about work projects, communicate with clients overseas and to exchange data.

Therefore, they do play an important role in the day-to-day running of a business.

One worker received backlash after sending a ‘racist’ email to a colleague which led to him being fired just a few days into his job.

Yet, university worker Ollie de Planta Wildenberg claimed that the auto-correct function on his computer had changed his colleague’s name to ‘Hash brown’ in the email – The Daily Mail reported.