The Company You Keep – Employee Theft

Quite often when we conduct employee theft investigations, we look at their friends who work with them to see if they are stealing as well.

As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. The same thing goes for employee theft. If you have an employee that is stealing they might have an accomplice in the store that is helping them out. If they found a way to steal independently, they may have shared this knowledge with their friends, to share the wealth, if you will.

When employee theft is occurring, the employee in question builds up their safe zone. This is how they establish their own parameters about when they can steal and how much they can steal. If the employee continues to expand their safe zone, the losses start to multiply exponentially. That means they start to take more and more each time they steal.

If they have involved their friends, they can expand the safe zone by eliminating how many other employees they need to watch out for. The friends might be an accomplice to help them past a register, or not questioning a bag going out the door.

This other employee (who begins to steal) will also develop their own safe zone. Now you have two employees causing you losses. You are also at risk that this employee will also bring one of their work friends into the loop, starting the cycle of employee theft over again.

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