What Kind Of Damage Can Be Done? – Background Checks

Have you ever stopped to wonder how much damage a single employee can do? Depending upon your business structure and environment, an employee can create minimal damage or maximum destruction. Before we talk about background checks, we need to look at the ways and employee can ruin a business.

In the most common ways, employee can cause inventory losses. They can steal, defraud, or simply be so oblivious to policy and procedure; they cause losses through their negligence and inattentive behaviors. These financial implications create a tangible loss in your inventory, and an increase to your merchandise costs due to repurchasing your inventory to satisfy necessary stock levels.

The next level of damage comes in less tangible ways. A bad apple employee can create devastating issue with morale. The worse your employees feel, the less productive they become, and the more they turn off customers who will go some place else to shop. Once it starts, it is difficult and can sometimes take years or massive employee turnover to remedy. Costing you money in lost sales and increased training costs for rehires. It also takes away your productive time as you are spending more time dealing with employee issues.

Finally, a bad hire can be devastating to your financial or proprietary knowledge. Restaurants that have a “secret sauce” have had employees steal the recipe so they can copy it or sell it for their own profit. Are you innovative or have proprietary advantages? Don’t think you are invulnerable to this sort of attack.

Background checks can help you eliminate these hires and these problems before they even begin.

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