- Survey participants in London and New York: 600
- Departing workers who took sensitive information with them: 40%
- Portion who would provide this information if it would help to find another job: 1/3
- Percentage of employees who are aware of the illegality of stealing information: 85%
- Portion of this population who do it any way: 1/2
- Percentage who believe it will be useful it some point in the future: >50%
- Percentage who find it easier to pilfer information this year: 57%
- Percentage last year: 29%
- Percentage who claimed they would take company info if fired tomorrow: 48%
- Percentage who would download company/competitive information if their jobs are at risk: 39%
- Portion of workers who have lost loyalty to their employers because of the recession: 1/4
- Percentage of those who take information “just in case”: 64%
- Percentage who would use the information in future job negotiations: 27%
- Percentage who would use the information as tools in their new jobs: 20%
- Those who would take customer and contact details: 29%
- Plans and proposals: 18%
- Passwords and access codes: 13%
- Product information: 11%
- Percentage of workers who would strive to find the redundancy list: 32%
- Percentage of those who would bribe a co-worker in the human resources department: 43%
- Who would use their own IT-granted access rights: 37%
- Who would use personal contacts of those in the IT department: 30%
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