Arbeitszeit: Arbeitszeitbetrug: So können sich Unternehmen wehren
Wäsche waschen, einkaufen, Netflix schauen: Immer wieder erledigen Beschäftigte Privates in ihrer Arbeitszeit. Wo der Betrug beginnt und was Unternehmen dagegen machen können.
Berlin. Employees occasionally take naps on the job, sneak out for shopping or gym sessions, or cook a Bolognese while pretending to work – all of which constitute labor fraud when they perform different activities during supposed work hours. This phenomenon is not uncommon in Germany. A market research institute's survey revealed that 13 percent of 1,000 German employees regularly fail to accurately record their working hours.
Moreover, three-quarters of respondents admitted to completing personal tasks while they should have been working. Labor fraud is no trifling offense; "it has significant macroeconomic implications," explains Sascha Stowasser, who heads the Institute for Applied Labor Sciences (IFAA) and has been researching labor world transformations for years.
"Employee absences are very costly for businesses." So, when does poor employee morale end, and when does fraud begin? And what can managers do to combat this issue?
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