Workers in the financial hub of New York are more likely
to be compliance-savvy than their London counterparts, but they’re
also far happier to dodge the rules.
A survey by Orchestria of 300 employees in Wall Street and the
City, reveals subtle differences in attitudes to compliance.
British workers value their privacy more. Only 38% of workers
support their firm’s right to monitor e-mails, compared to 60% of
New Yorkers. But only 42% of City workers say they’d use webmail to
dodge e-mail monitoring compared with 60% of US employees.
Regulating e-mail is not just a problem for the finance sector,
warns Zeus Kerravala, senior vice-president of enterprise research
at Yankee Group.
“We are seeing a shift in the market as companies outside the
heavily regulated sectors realise the problems presented by the
accessibility of communication tools such as e-mail, and the
possibilities this presents in terms of inappropriate employee
behaviour, loss of intellectual property and damage to corporate
reputation,” he says.
