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Theft
Report reveals alarming attitudes to data theft in the UK workplace
Independent research reveals that UK businesses are the victims of high levels of data theft by staff, including confidential documents, customer databases, business contacts and sales leads.
The survey found that:
- 37% believe it’s acceptable to take database information and sales leads
- 78% of workforce owns devices capable of download and storing data
- 49% of 16-24 year-olds do not think workplace theft is stealing
- 56% believe companies expect things ‘to go walk-about’
- 60% of workers have removed items from the office in the past
- 11% (15% for men) remove confidential documents
- 10% of larger SME employees have stolen computer equipment
- 30% of workers believe sales leads/business contacts are rightfully theirs
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