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Recession Pushes More Workers To Steal Data
An anonymous reader writes to share the findings of a recent transatlantic survey which suggests that the recession is pushing workers to be a little bit more accommodating when it comes to sharing, viewing, or stealing sensitive information from the company they work(ed) for. "Pilfering data has become endemic in our culture as 85% of people admit they know it's illegal to download corporate information from their employer but almost half couldn't stop themselves taking it with them with the majority admitting it could be useful in the future! [...] The survey entitled 'the global recession and its effect on work ethics,' carried out for a second year by Cyber-Ark – found that almost half of the respondents 48% admit that if they were fired tomorrow they would take company information with them and 39% of people would download company/competitive information if they got wind that their job was at risk. Additionally a quarter of workers said that the recession has meant that they feel less loyal towards their employer."
Looking at your Slashdot name, that post takes on a bit of an ominous tone. Is "gave my notice" some kind of euphemism?
Well, they do until they fire one of their employees ;)
The survey asked banksters and Wall Street fraud artists: FTFA:
We already know that Wall Street and Canary Wharf are full of crooks. I suspect that among that bunch, the 41% is low - the other 59% probably lied.
Huh. That's the same stats for masturbation!
I think I need to get a government grant for that - Obama is promoting science.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
"but then, I wouldn't much care one way or another if Apple survived"
What?! But if people couldn't buy Apple computers then if they wanted to be stuck up they'd have to be French! How can you not care one way or the other about that?!!
(hehe wonder how quickly this one will go to -1!)
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia