Signals that indicate internal theft, Time Theft – Part 9 of 10 – Atlanta Georgia

Signals which indicate a possible employee theft or internal theft with time. Do you need an employee theft investigation ?

• Personnel who, seemingly self-sacrificingly, take over their co-workers tasks while they have lunch and coffee breaks. This time can be used for taking money from tills, helping their friends, or placing goods ready to take later or even loading goods into their own vehicle.
• Personnel who offer to work overtime or who create overtime.
• Overtime which always takes place with the same group of volunteer employees.
• Personnel who send their co-workers home while they stay late to count cash or lock the premises.
• Reporting sick according to a fixed pattern such as an annual event, good weather, during holiday periods, to coincide with a sporting event, or before or after a weekend.
• Signals that indicate employment for other employers while they claim to be sick, such as not being reachable, fixed patterns of reporting sick, no complaints about reduction of salary.
• Clients complain that a representative does not visit despite reports submitted by the representative that states a visit has taken place.
• Raising the hourly rate by declaring un-worked overtime.
• Carrying out work for his or her own business, or a family business, or for another third party. Working in the same line of business on a “temporary” basis.
• Regularly preparing private commercial work on the firm’s premises during working hours, evenings or weekends.
• Lack of control over presence of employees.

Employee theft or internal theft through time fraud is very common. Managers who do not keep and eye on the comings and goings of employees are setting the company for loss. Employees that are not properly supervised may be working for themselves on your time.

Watch for more about employee theft investigation in future blogs!

For more information about employee theft or employee theft contact us at employee theft investigation or call 1.770.426.0547 – Atlanta Georgia