How to Tell if An Employee is Trustworthy

One comment raised an issue saying employees stealing and having them consistently check and open the boxes that a customer is purchasing. We will discuss this issue furthermore and how to overcome this challenge.

Workplace theft is common especially in small businesses that have no way to countercheck inventories. According to statistics, about 75% of employees have stolen from their employer once and about 38% have stolen at least twice. There is also what we call theft of time and if you combine that to the statistics mentioned above, the percent of employees that have stolen from their employer goes up to a whopping 95%.

It is difficult to find trustworthy employees especially during a crisis. So when you spot a trustworthy employee, do your best to take good care of them as they can be your right hand and proxy whenever you are away. Basically, your secret spy to maintain peace and order in your workplace.

How to tell if an employee is trustworthy?

First, identify your employee’s approach to their work.  Their consistency in having a good work ethic will show a genuine interest and concern for your business’ growth. Work ethic is also related to good initiative. Does your employee have the ability and motivation to use their own initiative to make decisions themselves in order to ease your workload. After all, you hired them to make your life easier so you can focus on other aspect of your business that will allow you to expand your scale.

Another important thing is to check your employee’s integrity. Trust is not easily given. Trust must be earned. If your employee has been given confidential information they will keep it to themselves and when given with privileged access, they make sure to keep it secure.

There are so many ways to test if your employee is trustworthy. But the most basic factor you can depend on to know if your employee is trustworthy is through intuition, your gut. You just know you can trust that person by heart and you can see it. You just know it.

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