People who quit their jobs aren t just walking away with a pension and a retirement watch, according to a new report.
They also leaving with passwords to some of their former employers most confidential documents, according to the study by Mountain View-based Intermedia and Osterman Research, of Black Diamond, WA. It found that 89 percent of the 379 former workers it surveyed retained access to their company s Salesforce, PayPal, email, SharePoint, Facebook and other accounts.
In addition, the study determined that 60 percent of the workers weren t asked for their Internet logins when they left, 45 percent retained access to confidential or highly confidential data and 49 percent logged into a company account after leaving the firm.
This problem exists, the study concluded, in part because the responsibility for giving access to company documents is scattered among different departments.
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