In a 54-page filing with the Federal District Court in Northern District earlier this month, Adecco accuses the upstart Staffworks of raiding its Corning, Elmira, Utica and Syracuse staff to steal proprietary account information and using it to steal long-established business...
- Former employees commandeered a Adecco Corning office Facebook page for their own use, renaming it and taking control of posts.
- A former Adecco employee broke into locked office filing cabinets, drilling through locks, "to remove colleague personnel files and other Adecco documents containing confidential information." The employee contends she was only trying to obtain personal items from the locked cabinet.
- Proprietary pricing information and profit margin details was emailed from internal email accounts to personnel accounts before Adecco cut off access.
- Those named in the suit refused to return company laptops and mobile devices with critical and confidential client and company details.
- In their last weeks of employment , three defendants sabotaged client relationships by failing to enter information into a payroll system, later using the foul-up as evidence that Adecco was "going downhill," in an attempt to land new clients. more
Note to Adecco: Time for a thorough TSCM inspection. (search for eavesdropping devices)
