A Well Fargo employee in Arizona died at her office desk, but her body was only discovered four days after she last punched in for work, authorities said.
The employee, identified as 60-year-old Denise Prudhomme, scanned into work at the bank’s corporate office in Tempe, just outside Phoenix, at 7 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 16.
The following Tuesday, Aug. 20, building security informed Tempe police that a person had been found unresponsive in the office.
When officers arrived they confirmed Prudhomme had died.
While the Medical Examiner’s Office has yet to determine what led to the woman’s death, 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 at our Tempe office.”
Wells Fargo is “fully cooperating” with police 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 smelling a foul odor in the building when they arrived on Monday.
However, employees thought the smell was caused by faulty plumbing.
Prudhomme’s cubicle was reportedly on the third floor of the building and in a remote area, away from the floor’s main aisle.
However, the building is monitored by security 24 hours a day, according to one employee.
“That’s the scary part. That’s the uneasy part,” the person said. “It’s negligence in some part.”
One employee told Fox10 Phoenix several people work on the third floor of the building, but employees work on hybrid schedules.
“We have A-B schedules, so I’m assuming 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 didn’t immediately return a request for comment Friday morning.
