Are Company Secrets Safe With Recession Hit Employees?

A transatlantic survey has revealed that almost 50% of financial sector workers in New York and London would take sensitive company information with them if they were fired.

Of the 600 office workers in Canary Wharf in London and Wall Street in NYC, 41% revealed they had taken sensitive data when they moved to new positions. Around one third also said that they could pass company information if it helped friends or family get a job. A quarter also mentioned that the recession has lowered their level of loyalty towards their company.

The survey by management specialists Cyber-Ark reveals that employees seem to be desperate enough to do almost anything to ensure job security and make themselves more marketable and that includes committing a crime too.

For data thieves, at the top of the list were customer and contact details at 29% with plans and proposals coming in 2nd at 18%. More than 30% would have no qualms in looking at a redundancy list to see if they figured in it, and would be willing to bribe HR to get the info. The poll also showed that only 20 percent of British respondents were prepared to take a salary cut to keep their jobs compared to 50 percent of U.S. workers.