By Muri Assunção | New York Daily News
A Well Fargo employee in Arizona died at her office desk, but her body was not discovered until four days after she last reported to work, authorities said.
The employee, identified as 60-year-old Denise Prudhomme, scanned into work at the bank’s corporate office in Tempe at 7 a.m. on Friday, August 16.
The following Tuesday, August 20, building security informed Tempe police that a person had been found unresponsive in the office. When officers arrived, they confirmed that Prudhomme had died.
While the medical examiner’s office has not yet determined what caused the woman’s death, the preliminary investigation indicates no “obvious signs of foul play,” police said in a statement.
A Wells Fargo spokesperson said in a statement shared with news outlets that the company is “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague in our Tempe office.”
Wells Fargo is “fully cooperating” with law enforcement and has offered counseling services to affected employees, the spokesperson added. A bank employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told local television station KNPX that several people began to smell the smell of nausea in the building when they arrived at Monday.
However, the employees believed that the smell was due to faulty piping.
Prudhomme’s locker was reportedly on the third floor of the building and in a remote area, away from the floor’s main hallway.
However, the building is monitored by security 24 hours a day, according to an employee.
“That’s the scary part. That’s the worrying part,” the person said. “It’s negligence to some extent.”
An employee told Fox10 Phoenix that several people work on the third floor of the building, but employees work hybrid schedules. “We have AB schedules, so I guess she was part A. I don’t even know where her team was. Because my manager used to be in a different state,” the employee said.
Wells Fargo did not immediately return a request for comment Friday morning.
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