Research indicates that January and February are the most popular job-hunting months, and that one of the main reasons people leave their jobs is for more money. Indeed, with unemployment currently low and the number of overall jobs growing, many workers are currently in a good position to land somewhere else in the next month or two and earn a higher salary. And if they have new jobs, that means they're leaving their old companies — maybe yours.
With the annual job shuffle still hot, it's important to note that nobody wants a bad professional breakup resulting in burned bridges, hurt feelings, and lost — sometimes stolen — property.
By "property" I mean valuable assets such as proprietary data, confidential information, and identity credentials. Unfortunately, that property can be compromised — often unintentionally.
Various studies agree on the following:
A large percentage of departing employees — including executives — take their company's intellectual property with them because they created it and think it's theirs.
A significant number of enterprises don't have policies or technologies in place to prevent loss of intellectual property (IP).
Most IP loss from unintentional inside breaches occurs from employee ignorance or a lack of awareness of company policy and IP law.
Over half of small business owners say they have no user access policy for remote workers, according to information security company Shred-it.
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