You have seen the "Employees Steal Company Secrets" stories here, and in WhiteRock's newsletter, WhiteSparks. Here is what a top insider thinks... (via WhiteSparks) In response to WhiteSparks article ‘Enemy Within: 60% of Employees Happy to Steal Company Secrets’ (Issue 1, 7 January 2009), we recently received an email from a senior figure in the industry. He provides a compelling reason for why employees are willing to steal company secrets:
"You know, there would be less of this going on if companies did not actively recruit staff with the intention of taking client lists with them..... It's like drugs - if there is no market, there is no point in being the supplier...."
Stories in the media about the theft of trade secrets tend to focus on individual employees who are caught red-handed, but here we are invited to consider the wider issue – that of corporate demand for proprietary information.
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