Employee Theft can be committed by Anyone!

Employee theft is the most pervasive threat faced by any company.  As a company you rely on your employees to generate the goods and services needed to make a profit and pay their salaries.  However, as we in the Loss Prevention profession are aware, we cannot implicitly trust every single employee completely.  In a perfect world we wouldn’t need to concern ourselves with employee theft or needing to conduct employee theft investigations but this is far from a perfect world.

Everyone in the employ of your company, from the cleaning crew that shows up early in the morning every other day to the kindly retiree grandmother who works part time or the twenty year veteran manager is capable of, and has likely committed an internal theft at one point or another.  Employee theft is so common that there are entire branches of Loss Prevention dedicated to conducting employee theft investigations and terminating or prosecuting the culprits.  It is so common that there are dozens of tracking metrics used by every company with a product to sell or money to move to find who is stealing what or embezzling funds from where.

How do we stamp out this incredibly massive threat to our means of making a profit?  We don’t.  There is no way to completely eliminate internal theft.  Just like shoplifters who make their living by stealing from our respective companies if an employee WANTS to purloin something from your company they will find a way to do it.  They may even get away with it the first few times.  The only way to stop them is to conduct thorough employee theft investigations, to be vigilant, and to make an example of those you catch so that others who may consider taking something that isn’t theirs will think twice before trying.

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