Precision Computer Investigations is pleased to offer the Employee Departure Program, a proactive solution to safeguard against potential litigation and liability. Through its forensics capabilities, this program allows corporations to create a legally defensible copy of the devices used by the departing employee as part of the exit process. PCI uses court approved methods to capture, preserve and analyze electronically stored information (ESI) contained on laptops, computer hard drives and portable digital devices of departing employees. This forensic processes can sustain legal challenges and meet all evidentiary standards.
Every organization faces the prospect of losing several employees every year. When an employee leaves a company, whether to join another company, because of termination or a reduction in force, there is a potential exposure and liability for actions undertaken during their employment. To address this, organizations must properly manage the data that was created or controlled by the departing employee.
What are the key benefits of the Employee Departure Program?
· The ability to drastically reduce costs and legal fees for future lawsuits involving theft of intellectual property, corporate espionage, embezzlement, and fraud. In a 2004 FBI survey, 269 companies reported out of pocket expenses totaling over 141 million dollars from theft of intellectual property, employee sabotage and financial fraud.
· Protection from lawsuits brought against the company by former employees. Some cases include:
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Sexual harassment
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Wrongful termination
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Discrimination (gender, race, age and/or religion)
· The Employee Departure Program will also allow human resource departments to defend against a lawsuit by providing an analysis of relevant documents and files and identifying any improper activity by departed employees as well as revealing supporting documentation that can demonstrate the organization's continued compliance or absence of liability.
· Assistance in the discovery process during litigation. An advantage of the Employee Departure Program is that we preserve and maintain the employee data and can produce data in a timely fashion.
· Retrieval of relevant files kept by a specific employee. In some cases, an employee may have important corporate files stored on their computer that no one else had access to. Sometimes, a month or a year later that data becomes relevant and needs to be produced. The Employee Departure Program allows us to easily retrieve that data from the hard drive.
· The capability to retrieve deleted data from an exiting employee. When an employee leaves a company, more often than not, they have a tendency to delete most of their data from the hard drive. This data may contain vital company documents or important company related emails. As an additional service to the Employee Departure Program, Precision Computer Investigations can conduct a forensic examination which may be used to recover deleted files.
