Hi Fady,

The consultant that was hired at your company is in violation of an NDA or CDA for sure. It is quiet irresponsible of him to just copy the document from another company and not edit out the embedded logos and macros from that other company. It would be alright to follow the organization and overall formatting from the other company he worked for as reference, but he should have made changes so that any document he puts out is customized to the current company that he works for. Most companies are not 100% original as ideas and rules of conduct are borrowed/recycled from other “ideal” companies. This is fine so long as the company makes an effort to not copy things exactly from another company and instead add value to borrowed ideas to set them apart.