Working hours: Working time fraud: How companies can defend themselves
Doing laundry, going shopping, watching Netflix: Again and again, employees take care of private matters during their working hours. Where the fraud begins and what companies can do about it.
A survey by Consumerfieldwork found that 13 percent of 1000 German employees regularly misrecord their working hours. Additionally, three-quarters of participants admitted to doing personal tasks while supposed to be working. According to Sascha Stowasser, head of the Institut für angewandte Arbeitswissenschaft (IFAA), time theft has significant economic impacts and is costly for companies.
Stowasser has researched changes in the professional world for many years. The issue raises questions about where poor work ethic ends and fraud begins.
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