Wells Fargo's failure to notice the death of an employee for 4 days reveals the safety pitfalls of the hybrid and remote work era

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The death of a Wells Fargo employee that went unnoticed for four days late last month has left many in the corporate world questioning how such a tragic event could happen. 

At around 7 a.m. on Friday, August 16, Denise Prudhomme scanned into her job at a Wells Fargo bank branch in Tempe, Arizona. She later died in her cubicle, and wasn’t discovered until the following Tuesday by a security guard, after employees had complained of a foul odor. Her cause of death remains unclear, but authorities suspect no foul play.