Employee Theft: An inside look for what is missing – Atlanta Georgia

If your business is experiencing unexplained shortages, you may want to take an inside look for what is missing.  Simply put the problem may be an employee theft issue.  Businesses are always looking outside their doors to explain inventory shortages.  As a loss prevention professional, I know how hard it can be for a manager to look at their staff.  Internal theft is real and occurs more often than managers may think.  Managers should look at their staff with objectivity and look at the behavior and key performance indicators in an effort to get an informed assessment of their staff.

Taking a look at your employees does not mean that there is an issue of employee theft being committed by the employees.  An employee theft investigation can allow for an internal theft analysis of the inventory shortages to be done.  An employee theft investigation can help pinpoint t where losses are occurring.  The results may or may not be determined to be the result of employee theft.  However, when unexplained shortages occur, it has been my experience that they are almost always indicative of employee theft.

Time is always of the essence as businesses, especially retailer have a tremendous amount of exposure to acts of theft.  Retailers open their doors everyday to the public and leave them unlocked and open until they close.  If there is internal theft occurring it could have the potential to destroy any chance for a retailer to make a profit from the sale of their merchandise.  It is a positive when a retailer assesses their internal operations.

As a loss prevention profession with over ten years of experience, I implore every retailer to take a look inside their business.  An employee theft investigation can yield reliable and pertinent information about your staff work performance or lack of.  It is imperative to act and act quickly to remedy internal problems.

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