Labor/Employment,
Intellectual Property,
Covid Columns
Oct. 7, 2020
Remote workforces increase pressure on keeping trade secrets protected
With more workers accessing, disclosing, using and creating valuable company information from their homes, prudent company leaders must ensure that they have appropriate procedures, training and safeguards in place to protect company trade secrets.
Robert B. Milligan
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Email: rmilligan@seyfarth.com
UC Davis SOL King Hall; Davis CA
Robert is the co-chair of the Trade Secret, Computer Fraud and Non-Competes Practice Group and editor of the firm's Trading Secrets blog.
While many companies employed a mobile workforce before the COVID-19 crisis, the magnitude of the pandemic and the incumbent stay-at-home orders have fundamentally changed how employees work. While experts debate the extent to which companies will return to their traditional work environment and practices once the pandemic subsides, many companies have had to cope unexpectedly with having the vast majority of their employees working at hom...
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