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Just because younger employees may have a better grasp of new software and technologies than their older counterparts, it doesn’t mean they understand security in the digital age.

In fact, workers in their 20s are more than twice as likely as their older counterparts to leave a password to an enterprise application on a post-it note on their desk, according to a new study from IT solutions provider Softchoice.

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The study found that 25.8% of twenty-somethings kept their application passwords in plain sight, compared to just 10.8% of Baby Boomer employees.

Which of course begs the question: Why are people in their 20s leaving their passwords in plain sight?

According to the Softchoice study, the problem is in the sheer number of software as a service (SaaS) applications many employees are now using in the enterprise. Roughly 36% of the survey’s respondents reported using at least five apps on the job, which results in too many unique — or largely similar — passwords for an employee to remember.