Employees say it's okay to remove confidential data from the office. Employers say it isn't.
According to the "2012 FileTrek Document Security Survey," an evaluation of 2,625 Americans age 18 and older—90 percent of adults—said they think other employees are removing confidential documents from the workplace, and 79 percent said they think doing so is grounds for termination.
But the study found that more than half of all adults do it themselves. About 68 percent of employees age 18 to 34, and 50 percent of employees 55 and older, said it was acceptable to remove confidential data from the office.
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