Employee fraud is estimated to set UK business back £2 billion a year. So it is little wonder companies are using an ever-increasing range of methods to monitor staff.
One of the biggest bugbears of modern Britain is best described in a phrase once uttered by information commissioner Richard Thomas - 'the surveillance society'. First coined in 2004, its meaning has gained more resonance as the years go by. According to the Surveillance Society report, released by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in November last year, there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK - one for every 14 people. On an average day, an individual can be captured on more than 300 cameras, and the Home Office has spent £500 million of public money on the country's CCTV infrastructure, making Britain one of the most watched countries in the world.
The media incessantly bombards the public with these statistics, but what does it all mean to HR? A great deal, it seems. This tendency to 'watch' members of the public out on the street could be moving into the workplace. With good reason, going by how much employee fraud costs UK plc. Mike Adlem from Protivit Independent Risk Consulting believes it sets back UK business £2 billion a year.
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