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By Carl Weiss
Everyone has heard of the
ghost in the machine, right? You know the one about the person who use to work
at your company who did something that had a major impact on the way things
work? Now everyone has to follow some rule or methodology just to make sure things
go as planned. Their legacy, good or bad permanently changed things forever. Well, today’s blog is a twist on that theme. We
explore the problems that occur as the result of employees being fired or put
out to pasture. Like it or not, having
to deal with the digital footprints left by former staffers can be problematic
to say the least. In the best case
scenario, someone needs to be assigned to pick up where they left off in areas
such as social networking, file management and even online security. In the worst case, former employees have been
known to rifle their employer’s server, plant malware or even lock their former
bosses out of their own systems. Before
you start experiencing digital things that go bump in the night, let’s take a
hard look at a number of cases involving the ghosts of employees past.
