Not long ago a story was posted on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch staff website with the headline, “The associate, the burglar and the secured laptop”. It told of an employee who had returned from a family outing to find that her house had been broken into, and all three family laptops pinched.
Luckily, however, the thieves did not get their hands on her company laptop, as she had taken the precaution of attaching it with a security cable to the leg of a heavy piece of furniture.
The woman – I shall call her Ruth – was quoted as saying: “It was bad enough being robbed, but at least I had one less thing to worry about and that was dealing with a lost company laptop”.