Employee Monitoring | Surveillance

Surveillance operations, especially the monitoring and verification of employees in cases of justified initial suspicion, are the specialty of Aaden Detective Agency Munich. We would be happy to advise you without obligation: +49 89 7007 4378-0.

Legally, There Are No Minor Offenses

A significant proportion (approximately 50 percent) of offenses to the detriment of companies are committed by their own employees. These include bribery, violations of non-compete agreements, theft, as well as sick leave abuse, working time fraud, and industrial espionage. In some cases, employees do not even recognize the offense as such, but rather see it as a trivial matter not worthy of punishment. However, using an example from the food retail sector, it is easy to demonstrate the consequences even small offenses can have:

An employee takes a bottle of mineral water, a yogurt, a pre-packaged sandwich, and a banana from the store’s inventory for their lunch break (pilfering). The total retail value of the stolen goods amounts to approximately four euros. The employee may think that, on the one hand, the employer will not notice and, on the other hand, that the employer can easily absorb “those few euros” financially (perceived as a minor offense). But what is the result of such thefts when considering that a retail business year consists of around 250 working days and that an average grocery store employs eight workers? The annual inventory would show a discrepancy of 8,000 euros caused solely by food thefts committed by your employees. For an average retailer, this is by no means an insignificant amount; in larger companies with significantly more employees, the damage increases accordingly.

Damage Caused by Employees: Ruin Is Not Uncommon

What about offenses of a larger scale, in which the Aaden Detective Agency Munich is typically involved: an employee who constantly generates continued wage payment costs without providing any work due to sick leave; an IT employee who passes production plans to a competitor, thereby potentially drastically reducing their employer’s expected revenue; a delivery driver who takes part of the goods home every day and sells them privately. The damage is enormous, and depending on the size of your company, insolvency may be a real risk in the worst-case scenario.

The business detectives of Aaden Detective Agency Munich can clarify many of the aforementioned offenses and more (for example unauthorized secondary employment) through intensive surveillance of the suspected employees and provide you with court-admissible evidence: info@aaden-detektive-muenchen.de.

Undercover Infiltration by Business Detectives

Depending on the situation and environment, there are also a number of types of offenses committed by employees that cannot be proven through research and surveillance alone. These may include theft from company premises, bribery, sexual harassment in the workplace, bullying, and inadequate job performance. In such cases, it is necessary to observe the suspected employee on-site while committing the acts, which is why employee infiltration is an effective investigative method. In this approach, a detective from Munich is placed as an employee within your company and can discreetly observe the target individual, build trust, and document the illicit activities in a manner admissible in court.

Let our Aaden Detective Agency Munich advise you on this without obligation: +49 89 7007 4378-0.