It can be a hard fact to accept when you find out that one of your valued employees is guilty of internal theft. Internal theft is referred to as theft by employees who are hired to work for your business. In my experience I have found that everyone entering your store is not planning on doing a good job for you. In fact some are actually planning on doing a number on you.
As hard as it is to conceive internal theft is very common. Unfortunately internal theft often makes up the majority of all losses seen by retailers. Employees suspected of theft are often hard to catch. An employee theft investigation has to be done in a very sensitive manner and in a way that any other parties involved will also be discovered during the investigation. It is important that an employee theft investigation capture all employees involved in committing the theft.
The damage from allowing employee theft to continue with initiating an employee theft investigation immediately can be severe. Employee theft can result in the loss of thousands of dollars in merchandise for a retailer in a very short amount of time. Many employees who commit theft came into the business the first day knowing exactly what they wanted to do.
Employee theft can be practically unnoticeable until it is too late. Having the assistance of loss prevention professional that specialize in employee theft investigation is a plus. As a loss prevention manager, I have handled hundreds of cases involving employee theft and had to interview the employees implicated in the investigation. It has never ceased to amaze me the ways in which employees justify their crime. I have heard employees say that they were passed over for promotion or that they were owed the money for all the work they had done. Businesses must be proactive in the preventing employees from stealing from them.
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