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In the financial sector, vacation is a fraud control. Reshuffling job duties makes it easier for others to discover your misconduct, and temporarily suspending
by closeparen 8y ago
In the financial sector, vacation is a fraud control. Reshuffling job duties makes it easier for others to discover your misconduct, and temporarily suspending your access makes it harder for you to cover it up.
- foobiekr 8y agoit would seem this would mostly only work if the vacation was imposed randomly. otherwise you have plenty of time to plan it.
- Matticus_Rex 8y agoEven limiting the scope to things that can be covered up with some lead time is a benefit.
- LogicX 8y agoMy mother worked in banking, and was required to take a consecutive two week block of vacation. I believe the idea was that any fishy financial sruff would likely come up during such an extended time off.