Confidentiality Matters

Keeping your information confidential is essential, sometimes your staff may not think it is as important as you do.  Having a good confidentiality agreement helps make this very clear.

While confidentiality is normally covered in an employment agreement and “implied” ‘terms of contract, we think it is important to be specific, in plain English, about what is okay to tell or give people, and what is not.

The kind of positions we would normally recommend sign a confidentiality agreement include managers, financial controllers, IT people, or anyone with access to information that if given to people outside the company could be bad for business.

If you make it clear what is okay and what you don’t want happening, then it helps stop issues from actually happening.  If they do come up you have a good reason to start the disciplinary process.