Abstract
In the dim and distant past, when the office had, at most, a single computer, the wrath of the manager was visited upon staff for taking home pens and notebooks. In the modern world, business staff can remove a great deal more. The availability of high-capacity storage media and email makes it relatively easy to take sensitive business information away from the office for good operational reasons. However, when there is a threat that staff members might be losing their jobs in the near future, the temptation to get access to information that might help them find a job with a rival, or even set up business for themselves is heightened, as Wendy Goucher discovers. On 15 September 2008, pictures of Lehman Brothers employees leaving the company's New York office, their possessions in boxes, were flashed across news channels of the world. The question many have asked since is, what information did they take with them? How many, sensing the impending collapse, made preparations and gathered data that could help them find future work and influence?
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