Bad Employee?
Jacqui Chang of ARS Technica notes that 12% of employees surveyed admit to knowingly violating their companies’ IT policies to get work done. Chang attributes this to bad employees but I’m not so sure. It’s one thing if any percentage of employees, let’s say 100%, knowingly violate IT policies to avoid getting work done. It’s quite another if 12% knowingly do so (and presumably, at least as many unknowingly do) in order to get work done. At what point do we stop saying “bad employee” and start asking if there’s something wrong with the IT rules themselves?
