One of this channels can lead to a lawsuit. Guess which one.
It is very bad for employees because employees are the sacrificial goats for shareholders. The catch all escape for liability is 'an employee did it' followed by 'a manager did it' followed by 'an executive did it.' These chats to some extent make it easier to sacrifice peons to the government and/or civil plaintiffs but it also makes it harder to fend off such conflicts in the first place by just making it harder for the other side to find any dirt.
Oh, did I get some dirty looks from that ill-considered thought that was spoken aloud.