40% of Russians are ready to use information from the previous
40% of Russian workers consider it possible to use “sensitive” information received during work at their former employer at a new place of work. Among the top managers, the majority (67%) are ready for such practice, among linear experts-37%. Given the growth of the turnover in the current labor market, this may require companies more effective control over information security.
Only a third of Russian workers consider it unacceptable to use official information at a new place of work, which they received from the former employer. This follows from the results of a joint survey conducted by HH.ru and StaffCop. More than 2 thousand Russian applicants took part in it. Of these, 75% are specialists and ordinary employees, 21% are group managers or department, 4% are top managers.
As follows from the answers of the respondents, the absolute majority (93%) did not encounter to provide working documents, client cases or commercial offers from last place of work when employing for a new position. Only 5%mentioned the fact of such requests. At the same time, the top managers are offered to share information more often than ordinary employees-among the first, 11%came across similar requests, only 3%among the second.
It should be noted that at the same time 40% of respondents believe that information from the previous place of work as a whole could be used in another company – the final answer to this question would depend on its type. Another 11% are ready to do this if their productivity grows. A third of interviewed applicants believe that it is unacceptable to do this. Among the top managers of those who are more flexible, the majority (67%) turned out to be more flexible, although this indicator falls as the status decreases. Among the leaders of the groups are already only 47%, among line employees – 37%.
This, among other things, also reflects the availability of access to “sensitive” information-more than half (56%) of those who regularly work with confidential information, are top managers. In general, 32% of employees regularly work with confidential information, almost the same (37%) have never had access to it.
Most often, employees have access to internal reports (73%), client database (55%), financial data from the company (42%), technical information (40%). It is less likely – to the base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, personal personal data and medical cards – there are only 4%of them.
Most employees (79%) before leaving the company did not save work information, 3% did it by chance or out of habit, 4% took the data on purpose. 14% of employees remained in the mail, cloud, on personal devices. At the same time, a third of the respondents (33%) reported the complete blocking of access to the information of the former employer, 11% retained him for some time.
According to Mikhail Dobrovolsky, deputy leader SKB Contour, if the employees have access to corporate information after dismissal, then the companies do not have regulations for work with accounts, while “blocking accounts and accesses is the basic task of information security, which is of considerable benefit at low costs”. As the partner of Cornerstone notes Vladislav Bykhanov, in an attempt to protect themselves, many companies offer employees to sign an agreement when employed, according to which they do not have the right to go with direct proposals to the company’s customers when they are resigned.
“But in practice this is easy to get around, so many even in this case take away, for example, client bases,” the expert notes.
Note that in the future, the problem of unauthorized data transfer when changing work can only worsen – the turnover of labor in the Russian labor market over the past few years has grown significantly, having reached a historical maximum. This is facilitated by the shortage of employees and significantly exceeding their number of open vacancies – according to the TSMAKP estimates, the number of the latter in 2024 could reach up to 2 million.
