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."

Re:The New Ethics in America

[tomhudson]

Wrong - the extra money printed up would have had zero effect if there had been nobody in a greedy frenzy to borrow it to buy their house before it got even more expensive, so they could get into the new new economy rather than work for a living. Money that isn't in circulation doesn't affect the economy. That's why much of the "stimulus" was ineffective - the banks just kept the money to shore up their own toxic balance sheets.