Arbeitszeit: Arbeitszeitbetrug: So können sich Unternehmen wehren
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Berlin – Employers face a challenge when employees sneak in a nap, make covert shopping trips or head to the gym during work hours, all while pretending to be productive. This phenomenon, known as labor time fraud, is more common than one might think in Germany. According to a survey conducted by the market research institute Consumerfieldwork, 13 percent of the 1,000 German employees questioned admitted to regularly underreporting their working hours.
Additionally, three-quarters of the respondents confessed to carrying out personal tasks while they should have been working.
Sascha Stowasser, director of the Institute for Applied Labor Sciences (IFAA) and a long-time researcher on changes in the modern workforce, emphasizes that labor time fraud is not a trivial matter. "It has huge economic consequences," he asserts. "Sick days are extremely costly for businesses." So, when does poor morale end, and fraud begin? And what can managers do to combat this issue?
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