Brit workers love to snoop
Nearly a quarter (22 per cent) of UK employees admit to having illegally accessed sensitive data such as salary details from their firms employer’s IT systems. More than half (54 per cent) of 2,200 adults polled during a YouGov survey said they’d forgo any scruples to do the same, given half a chance, according to a Microsoft sponsored survey that points to a culture of internal snooping and casual identity theft in offices across Britain.
Survey respondents said that HR and payroll information was the most popular target (36 per cent), followed by their manager’s personal notes (28 per cent) and their colleagues’ data (25 per cent). Given the chance, six per cent said they would pinch a colleague’s password.
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