Vancouver Sun: August 09, 2008. All Rights Reserved.
A 2004 study found an astounding 79% of employees admit to stealing or considering doing so from their employers. One in five has already done so by providing inflated expense accounts, cooking the books or pocketing money from cash sales. From purloined paperclips to the more audacious embezzlement of corporate funds, Canadian employers lose more than $120-billion a year to employee theft — a problem identified as the cause of 30% of business failures. Continue reading Stealing? Charges Are Just the Start