Overview
If your organization uses GitHub, you may wonder whether employees should use personal GitHub accounts or create new company-specific accounts.
You can allow employees and contractors to use their personal GitHub accounts, while enforcing appropriate security controls such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and access reviews.
This approach aligns with how GitHub is designed to work and helps avoid duplicate or unmanaged accounts.
Prerequisites
Before setting up organization notification routing:
The user must be a member of the GitHub organization
The company email address must be added to the user’s GitHub account
The email address must be verified in GitHub
Route organization notifications to a work email
Sign in to your GitHub account.
Open Settings.
Under Emails, add your work email address and complete the verification process.
Go to Notifications in GitHub settings. Then select Custom routing.
Select your work email address as the destination for notifications related to that organization.
Save your changes.
Once saved, all notifications for that organization will be sent to the selected work email, while other GitHub notifications continue going to the user’s default email.