Around 75% of the nearly 32 million employed people in 2019 resorted to theft at their workplace at least once. That means that employee theft is really quite prevalent and a cause for concern. Moreover, stealing is more common in smaller businesses. With almost 6 million SMEs in the UK, you probably have or know someone that has a smaller company. Our advice in preventing employee theft is to put up good quality surveillance and security systems. Furthermore, protecting your data as well as keeping track of employee work hours would help reduce time and data theft in your company.