Steve Jones - Editor (3/16/2009)
I think having code, emails, contacts, etc. at home is not necessarily theft. If you use it to somehow harm the company, compete with them, then it probably is. If it's reference material, or used for non-commercial/competing purposes, or used in another non-competitive situation, I'm not sure it is.
It is OK, if they understand what you are doing and agree to it. And either way, it is still their property and upon separation you are required to return it to them or (sometimes) destroy it, unless they agree that you may do otherwise.
This is the same as it would be the other way around: they also are required to return any property of yours that they may have. So if they allowed you to bring in a personal chair for the office, then they also must return it.
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