Scanning your work channel at work

[tanger32au]

Question:
Does anybody use a scanner at work to listen to your works radio channel? I have my own office so have my scanner on my desk during the day while I am working with the volume low and hidden out of view. I scan a wide range of channels including the channel used by a different department of my work place.

Nobody has said anything about it but I just wanted to check if it was something that could get me in trouble?

[blacktown]

So long as you are discrete and keep it to yourself I cant see an issue
However if I was listening to the work radio (i have a Motorola P25 base radio on the desk), then reproduce it on a forum such as this one, particularly if the comments adversely reflected on the organisation i work for, or alternatively if i reproduce what is seen as "commercial-in-confidence" information ie radio profile data, or say reproduce internal radio ids / callsigns, then one might be skating on very thin ice.
At the end of the day not worth loosing one's job for a scanning post

[Radio_Australia]

Lawfully or in a workplace tribunal I can not see an issue with it ,

that's only of course your the boss and not an employee, meaning it could be used against you if its " disrupting " your work you do at a workplace as an employee.