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Employee Theft on the Rise

T’s the season to be giving.  Seems it is also the season to be taking.  Since every season is open season for employee theft.  Employee theft is on the increase.  According to the annual Retail Theft Survey, employee theft is up some 5.5 percent. According to the article in the Digital Journal…”Retail theft was up […]

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Employee Theft–Head of Jewish Charity Accused of Multi-Million Theft

Employees can rob you blind.  Employee theft has been on the increase since the middle of the Great  Recession.  Desperate people commit desperate acts.  And venal people just want to enrich themselves. So now here is a god that became the head of one of the most prestigious charities.  Almost from the beginning, police say, […]

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Another Case of Employee Theft

Employee theft has been on the increase, especially after the economic downturn.  Employee theft can not only prove damaging to your business through loss of funds and proprietary data, but it can dramatically hurt employee morale and instill fear and lack of confidence in your customers.   The collateral damage created by employee theft is […]

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Higher Wages Translates Into Lower Employee Theft

If the employee theft is lower than wages are higher.  So says a recent study co-written by University of Illinois Professor, Clara Xialing Chen.  The study was reported on PhysOrg.Com. According to the article….”Using data sets from the convenience-store industry, Clara Xiaoling Chen, a professor of accountancy, and co-author Tatiana Sandino, of the University of Southern […]