EMPLOYEE THEFT…CAN YOU PASS THE TRIVIA CHALLENGE? – Atlanta Georgia

There are literally hundreds of ways employee theft can take place.  Let’s play trivia!  Can you name the top 5 employee theft types?  Well you don’t have to because here’s the list, CASH, MERCHANDISE, HOURS, EXPENSES, AND OFFICE SUPPLIES.

Cash – If you have a retail operation, it’s very important that employees are not allowed to work from the same register or petty cash areas.  It’s extremely difficult if they are all lumped together to find the responsible party if cash comes up missing.  Cash theft can encompass company credit cards, tips from other employees, return/exchange theft from transactions and a variety of other schemes.

Merchandise – It is amazing but statistics show that it is often management of retail stores that commit employee theft by taking merchandise.  Not only employees but the upper level management team may be very tempted to slip something in a pocket, purse or car and take off with it!

Hours – There are many companies out there still using manual time cards.  The pen and paper method makes it easy for employees to pad their hours, showing more time than they actually worked.

Expenses – Expense reports are a little harder to fake due to attaching receipts, however there are several ways to get around that.  For instance, an employee can add mileage to trips or additional tip percentages to meals.

Office Supplies – This seems like an insignificant issue for employee theft , however if you have a very large company it can become quite costly.  On the flip side, if you are a small employer and you only purchase one box of pens, all of them are “borrowed”, then your expenses double for office supplies for that item.

Have theft issues in the workplace? For more information contact us at employee theft or call 1.770.426.0547