Workplace sabotage: Unhappy workers turning to tech to get back at bosses

Workplace sabotage not new but technology has made some of these acts harder to detect

ST ILLUSTRATION: MANNY FRANCISCO
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Resigning en masse. Deleting files containing months of hard work from a server. Spitting into the food at a food-processing facility. These are just some of the ways that disgruntled employees have sabotaged their employers in the last year.

Interviews with companies across various industries suggest that the age-old practice of workplace sabotage remains well and alive in Singapore, and that unhappy workers, in fact, have become ever more creative in getting back at their companies - with help from technology.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 18, 2019, with the headline Workplace sabotage: Unhappy workers turning to tech to get back at bosses. Subscribe