What Would You Do If a Departing Employee Destroyed Computer Records?

 (Written by Frank Roche and excerpted from the KnowHR blog. One of the few blogs I make it a point to read every week.)

Here’s a management question for you…

What would you do if you discovered that an exiting employee destroyed all the files on his computer? Wiped it out? And say he did that to a number of computers at your place of business on the same day. And say that not only were the computers wiped out, but so were the backups on the server. And his physical backup went missing.

Would you:

A) Pursue legal remedies?

B) Forget about it and consider it a lesson learned?

C) Tell yourself you can’t trust any employee ever again?

With a lot of work product being in bits and bytes these days, what would you do if your product were destroyed?

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(To read an excerpt from Mel’s “classic,” Hire Tough, Manage Easy, click here.)