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Theft in the Workplace | Employee Theft

Theft in the workplace, meaning the removal of company property by employees of the company, is a common and, in a sense, even tolerated phenomenon. Pencils, printer paper, and USB sticks are only small examples of this widespread behavior, which may usually benefit the individual employee very little (which is why they see it as a trivial matter), but when it occurs on a large scale can lead to a tremendous increase in operating costs. Employee theft is usually noticed only when larger items or sums are involved: employees entrusted with accounting who divert more or less large amounts of money for themselves, or warehouse workers who appropriate valuable goods. To avoid attracting attention, they act very skillfully, for example by declaring finances as well as goods as losses. Likewise, the frequent removal of the small items mentioned above often goes unnoticed for a long time. However:

Systematic Theft of Inexpensive Items Leads to High Losses Over Time

Even minor offenses can cause enormous damage. One example will illustrate this: the detectives of Aaden Corporate Detective Agency Stuttgart were once asked to investigate a case in which printer paper kept disappearing from the client company. Printer paper is actually a fairly inexpensive item, especially in wholesale. Nevertheless, through the systematic theft of printer paper over the course of years, the perpetrator managed to cause an estimated economic loss of 15,000 €. Thus, a trivial matter quickly becomes a major nuisance.

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