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Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job
An anonymous reader writes "Employees openly admit they would take company data, including customer data and product plans, when leaving a job. In response to a recent survey, 49% of US workers and 52% of British workers admitted they would take some form of company property with them when leaving a position: 29% (US) and 23% (UK) would take customer data, including contact information; 23% (US) and 22% (UK) would take electronic files; 15% (US) and 17% (UK) would take product information, including designs and plans; and 13% (US) and 22% (UK) would take small office supplies."
No, its not. They stole the data weeks ago, or more realistically it is just sitting on there desktops at home. I can't even rememeber the last company I saw that didn't allow people to connect into work from home on some level. Usually they lock down more sensitive files from being accessed by anything but a remote workstation, BUT that doesn't prevent someone from just copying that file to a more convient location while they work on it. Then they get home.. copy that to there desktop at home and finish there work on it.. reupload it, and go to bed.
They then get fired 3 weeks or 4 months later and they then get home,see that file, and DON'T delete it. Until they didn't delete it, it was never stolen.. but once they got home, realized they had it and decided not to delete it it is stealing.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
Why is this flamebait? That's what I did, once you click Send it's yours and no one can accuse you of walking out with anything
my karma will be here long after I'm gone