Workplace Deviance

Workplace deviance, at its core, is when employees use their knowledge or privileges to do harm to a company or business. This can include, selling company data outside of work for profit, sabotaging equipment, purposefully mis-performing a given job, etc. Workplace deviance has become much harder to control with the growing influence of the internet. Individuals can maintain their anonymity whilst going against the wishes of their company with relative ease and it becomes nearly impossible to locate the sources of workplace deviance because of the previously stated anonymity. When it comes to the internet, companies have no guaranteed method to locate the source of workplace deviance should the person in question know how to cover their tracks. Companies have to depend on an employee making a mistake and revealing themself in order to locate the source of deviance and because of this, it looms as a very dangerous threat to the security of any given company.

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