Google recently fired an employee for breaking the company’s strict internal privacy policy.  According to an article in the Wall Street Journal,  the employee who was dismissed allegedly gained access  to information on several users who were minors.    The fired employee was a software engineer. If the charges are valid, then there is no doubt Google [...]

Background checks for school volunteers didn’t emanate out of the ether.  Like most things in this world, something happened that caused the more trusting in the school system to rethink their game plans.  Probably that was something pretty serious as schools and public service systems are not inclined to move all that fast unless they [...]

Workplace violence is a growing concern.  This is especially the case with an economic downturn and with employees depressed and fearful of losing their jobs.   Under these pressing and stressful conditions, people tend to act out. While background checks may help filter out those who are more prone to commit workplace violence, there is [...]

As a background checking company, we pay special attention to all the reports of workplace violence.   We believe that background checks are of major assistance in heading off the job applicants that are most likely to commit workplace violence.  However, they are by no means any full guarantee.   There is a first time for everything, and [...]