With economic predictions for the professional services sector looking increasingly bleak as the year draws to an end, it would have come as little surprise to any observer of the legal market that almost a quarter of the UK's top 50 law firms are considering making redundancies - as reported by Legal Week on 6 November. So, what issues should those managing this sensitive issue be thinking about? With more and more information being held electronically by law firms, the scope for acts of workplace computer sabotage and vandalism by disgruntled employees, as well as the destruction of incriminating evidence, has dramatically increased. Consequently, it is vital for firms to implement sound procedures when employees are laid off.
December 10, 2008 at 08:33 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
In the web 2.0 age, redundancy programmes carry a new level of security risk. Martin Baldock explains how to minimise the threat of grudge-bearing former employees
With economic predictions for the professional services sector looking increasingly bleak as the year draws to an end, it would have come as little surprise to any observer of the legal market that almost a quarter of the UK’s top 50 law firms are considering making redundancies – as reported by Legal Week on 6 November.
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