Confidentiality

"Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness."

-Edwin Louis Cole

A person is more likely to succeed and be valued in his career if he builds good professional network, gets along with co-workers and most importantly builds a reputation as a trustworthy employee. During the work the employer trusts his employees with crucial information which, if revealed, may have some material adverse effect on the business. This ranges from something as harmless as employee's personal information to things more serious, like, secret information about a new product, client details, business plans, manufacturing process and methods etc. Confidentiality, thus, means not discussing company's information and internal activities with competitors, press and in some instances even co-workers. Confidential information can be divided into 3 types-