FMLA Fraud in Energy Operations: The Hidden Crisis Draining Your Budget and Compromising Safety
The statistics reveal a troubling reality: 66% of HR professionals acknowledge widespread FMLA abuse in their organizations. In energy operations, this fraud creates problems that extend far beyond lost productivity. When safety-critical positions sit empty due to fraudulent medical claims, operational integrity suffers and people can get hurt. Energy companies face a unique vulnerability to […]
The Person Stealing From Your Bank Sits Three Cubicles Down From HR
Last Tuesday, a regional bank president called our team. “We just discovered our head teller has been stealing from us for four years… how did we miss this?” Said bank had spent $2.3 million on cybersecurity upgrades in the past two years. State-of-the-art firewalls. AI-powered fraud detection. The works. Meanwhile, the head teller was skimming […]
The Cost of a Bad Hire: How Investigative Due Diligence Protects Companies
Hiring is one of the most critical decisions a company makes, directly impacting its bottom line, workplace culture, and legal standing. Yet despite best efforts, organizations often encounter the costly consequences of a bad hire. Whether it’s an employee who lacks the skills they claimed to have, engages in unethical behavior, or creates conflict within […]
Fishbowl Investigations: Conducting Visible Internal Investigations
Corporations that have seen a decline in their corporate culture are turning to internal investigation and risk assessment firms for help in 2020. The discourse around corporate culture has evolved significantly over the last few years, with employees voicing their desire for work-life balance and how corporate culture directly impacts their decision to stay with […]
Employee Theft: A Symptom of Poor Corporate Culture
Regardless of the industry, all businesses should be vigilant with regards to employee theft. Employee theft can come in all shapes and sizes, from an administrative assistant pocketing some extra Post-Its to hardcore embezzlement on behalf of leadership. It can be easy to dismiss repeated instances of employee theft as isolated incidents, implementing disciplinary action […]
Corporate Culture & Employee Litigation
How Healthy Corporate Culture Stops Whistle-blowers
The word whistle-blower can trigger many different feelings for Americans. Much of the nation has very dichotomous feelings about whistle-blowers, either lauding them as heroes, or vilifying them as saboteurs. Individuals at the center of these whistle-blower stories are cast in different roles depending on the route that external media decides to take. While spectators […]
8 Signs of Employee Apathy
How to tell if your employees have checked out… Employee apathy may seem innocuous enough, but the costs to time and resources can be a slow, devastating drain on a corporation. Many corporations and organizations have at least one employee who exhibits all the major signs of checking out in their daily capacity. Even if […]