An Arizona medical examiner has determined the cause of death of a Wells Fargo employee who was found dead in her cubicle after four days.
Denise Prudhomme, 60, entered the bank’s corporate office in Tempe, Arizona, on Friday, August 16, at 7 a.m., but never left.
His body was eventually discovered by a security guard four days later, on Tuesday, August 20, and he called the local police department to report a “subject down.”
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office has revealed that Prudhomme suffered sudden cardiac death related to scarring of the heart muscle. Central Arizona Reports.
Medical experts say heart attacks are the most common cause of scar tissue in the heart. according to the Arizona family.
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined the cause of death of a Wells Fargo employee who was found dead in her cubicle in August.
Prudhomme’s death left many Wells Fargo employees distraught by the disturbing reality that their colleague’s passing went unnoticed for so long.
“It’s really heartbreaking and I think, ‘What if I was sitting there?'” said one distraught employee. 12News. ‘No one wanted to control me?’
“To hear that she has been sitting at the desk like that would make me feel bad,” they added. And nobody did anything. This is how he spent his last moments.
No missing persons reports were filed during the four days his body was in the office, but some employees reported smelling a foul odor that they passed off as faulty plumbing.
The bank has since said Prudhomme worked in a section of the building that was less populated due to remote work arrangements.
An employee also told Arizona Central that building security rarely conducted cubicle checks during their patrols.
‘Denise was the only person on her team in Tempe. “This may be one of the reasons why her desk was located in a sparsely populated area of the building and no one checked on her for four days,” a union representing Wells Fargo employees later said.
The Wells Fargo Workers United union criticized the bank, saying it intensely scrutinizes workplace behavior but failed to act when Prudhomme stopped being active.
‘Wells Fargo monitors our every move and keystroke using remote electronic technologies – supposedly to evaluate our productivity – and will fire us if we are caught not pressing enough keys on our computers; “Yet Denise lay unnoticed at her desk for four days,” he said.
“The contradictory nature of electronic surveillance versus an unnoticed death sheds light on the reality of what it means to be a worker at Wells Fargo.”
Prudhomme’s death also sparked a call for greater safety precautions that would ease employee stress.
“The solution is not more oversight, but rather ensuring we are all connected to a supportive work environment rather than being stored in an administrative office,” the union said.
