Work is held back by fekkin' manglement
We occasionally take on interns, who work a couple of hours per week to do lab work.
Manglement thinks that they do not need to be provided a company email-account, because of the few hours they work. So the poor sods are forced to fall back onto their private or university email accounts if the need to communicate.
One would think feudalism ended somewhere way back in time, but not in corporate's mind. There it is going strong. What a pubic display of feces.