Employees say it's okay to remove confidential data from the office. Employers say it isn't.
According to the "2012 FileTrek Document Security Survey," an evaluation of 2,625 Americans age 18 and older—90 percent of adults—said they think other employees are removing confidential documents from the workplace, and 79 percent said they think doing so is grounds for termination.
But the study found that more than half of all adults do it themselves. About 68 percent of employees age 18 to 34, and 50 percent of employees 55 and older, said it was acceptable to remove confidential data from the office.
This may be explained by the finding that 60 percent of respondents said it was circumstantially acceptable to take confidential information out of the office when:
- The boss says it's okay (48 percent)
- They need to finish a project from home (32 percent)
- They need to work on weekends or vacation time (30 percent)
- The confidential information is about themselves (16 percent)
- They can return it before their boss finds out (2 percent)
- They want to show others who promise to keep it confidential (2 percent).
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