Employee Theft Statistics Infographic
Filed under: All Infographics, Business Infographics | 8 Comments »While office theft by employees has been a problem since the invention of the office, it seems during times of economic uncertainty office theft rises substantially. Just how bad is it? How about 994 billion dollars being attributed to employees stealing? The infographic below clearly shows that employee theft is on the rise; and more startling is the fact that no one is immune to the lure of free pencils or getting a five-finger-discount when it come to electronics and other office equipment. All levels of education are guilty and those with bachelor’s degrees are the biggest offenders when it comes office theft.
As the infographic shows, office theft is prevalent and one of the easiest ways to deter employee theft is through the use of asset tags to track office equipment. Labeling your office equipment is something to consider especially when your equipment can grow legs so easily.
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Office theft is truly out of control if this infographic is any indication. The funniest thing about this graph is that even though the people with post graduate degrees are less likely to steal, when they do steal, they steal big.
Yeah, people have been stealing different things (even small and useless ones) since the beginning of mankind. And now it’s just a continuation of the deal.
I do find these statistics misleading as usual.
Is the percentile … number of people or amount stolen?
is seems under 1000 is a very small percentage of theft/fraud … so it really looks like uper level employees and owners are actually stealing most of the stuff. … which is what past statistics always showed.
Steal all you can get! The problem I had in the place I used to work was that there was another person stealing everything and I knew about it. The way I seen it was that whatever this person stole, that item was gone forever so I decided to steal as much as I could before the other dude could get to it. It turned out to be a race between us to rob everything and we got away with it because the new boss didn’t know the ropes. Good times :)
Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!
Pretty sure Scott Adams described it through his Dilbert series as something along the lines of “Its not stealing, its part of your ‘total benefit package’”.
Willy Brown Balls, you set the perfect example for your children, don’t you?
Excellent information! We have conducted a variety of investigations and have seen employee theft steadily increase over the years. It’s unfortunate.