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Workplace Harassment: Do You Know the Signs?
It might be easy to think, “that would never happen in my business,” but workplace harassment is an issue that traverses all industries, all working environments, and all sizes of organization. Ranging from workplace bullying, to sexual harassment, through to outright...
The Truth About Undercover Investigators In Today’s Business World
A lot of people might imagine that undercover investigations are something that's only really seen in the movies. A smooth talking operative, planted at the core of a villainous organization, tirelessly working to overthrow evil. What a great plot concept! But an...
Clean Your Own House: Improving Integrity with Corporate Investigations
Imagine a home—an attractive and decadent home—within which every visible surface is neat and tidy. However, if you lift the rug or look under the furniture, what you discover is festering. Mold, pests, and grime have taken hold, because nobody thought to look further...
Investing in Background Checks: Save Money for the Future with Comprehensive Background Checks in Your Business
The recruitment process is a resource-hungry beast for any business to satiate. It eats up the time of your HR team and departmental leadership, as well as digging deep into company funds. Of course, every human resources director or CEO knows that hiring also...
Supplementing Your Workload with a Private Investigator
While there are a great number of Private Investigators across America doing great work for individual clients, a small and elite few among their numbers offer greater specialization. This high-caliber investigative service can be invaluable to attorneys doing vital...
The Year of the Great Resignation: Why Your Company Needs a Corporate Investigation in 2022
In 2021, American businesses were struck by a phenomena that no CEO or human resources director could have seen coming. Historically, whenever economies have been hit by recession, employee turnover has dropped as workers hunkered down and rode out the storm. However,...
Is Your Business Falling Prey to the Employee Fraud Epidemic?
Imagine, if you will, that you're a mid-level manager, and you've had an eye on Bob for a while. Bob's always struck you as an easy going family guy, but recently you've noticed that his behaviour has become a little strange. Bob's clothes are a little more flashy and...
What You Need to Know: Labor Exploitation, Trafficking, and Liability
Corporations, organizations, and even small businesses operating in the United States today need to have their wits about them when it comes to all form of trafficking and labor exploitation. Human trafficking is big-business globally—because to perpetrators, it...
Why Now Is Not The Time To Drop Your Guard On Presenteeism And Employee Malingering
Health concerns have been a dominant issue for businesses around the globe of late. Whether employees have been testing positive for Covid-19 and having to self-isolate, or hitting the wall through burnout due to universal stressors, the impact on staffing has been...
How To Stop Lurking FMLA Abusers In Their Tracks
To most people, the Family Medical Leave Act, aka FMLA, shines as an example of civilizes society—a safety net that allows employees the scope to care for an ailing parent or address debilitating health problems without falling into unemployment. It's there to protect...
The Bottom Line On Launching An Ironclad Workplace Discrimination Investigation
Imagine the scenario: an employee comes to you and alleges that a pillar member of your leadership team has repeatedly addressed them using racial slurs. Or perhaps, a low level manager expresses concern that they have been repeatedly overlooked for promotion because...
When a Reckoning Arrives: Navigating Employee Theft or Fraud
You've just pulled the trigger on hiring a bright and bold new employee, and you couldn't be more excited. On paper, they are everything that your organization's been looking for—and the decision to welcome them into your team comes with an implicit trust and...
Phone Scams: How to Protect Yourself from Robo Calls
The inundation of phone calls from scammers, phishers, or “bots” as we’ve come to know them is a regular part of life for those with cell phones. For many of us, it’s simply a matter of blocking the call or taking some additional measures to mitigate the deluge....
What You Need to Know About Sexual Misconduct Investigations in the Workplace
We all like to think that every one of our employees or co-workers is guided by a strong moral compass and is conducting themselves accordingly. In some instances, we might even imagine that a little office banter with sexual undertones is harmless, but the reality is...
Are You Dealing With Disastrous Employee Alcohol And Drug Abuse?
When a company finds itself lurching from crisis to crisis, rather than reactively scrabbling to rein in the consequences, there's a lot to be said for hunting out the cause. Many employers remain oblivious to disastrous impacts of employee alcohol and drug abuse...
Essence
ESSENCE Special Report: How D.C.'s Disappearing Girls Highlight The Nation's Black and Missing Problem
Vice
What We Know About the Missing Teen Whose Parents Were Shot to Death
San Diego Tribune
Private eyes look for runaways, sex-trade victims to rescue
Stuff
Police reveal number of missing people who are believed to have been murdered
Cleveland
Activists call for dedicated missing persons unit; cities that have them caution against high hopes
Cape Cod Times
Most missing adult cases unsolved
Pheonix New Times
The National Center for Missing Adults’ Funding Was Slashed by the Feds, but Volunteers Are Keeping It Alive
Los Angeles Daily News
LAPD, family both trying to find man missing 4 1/2 years
Ann Arbor News
Is Olisa Williams still alive?