One of the most difficult situations to navigate in employee relations is how to appropriately handle an employee whom you suspect has been stealing. Employee thefts run the gamut from nicking office supplies from the storage room and stealing from coworkers’ lockers to falsely filling out time sheets, mishandling company intellectual property, customer identity theft and worse.
Because there’s so much variation in severity of possible workplace theft, there’s almost never a hard and fast rule for how to deal with it when it happens.