Employee Polygraph

I. Introduction

Employee theft has reached epidemic proportions in the United States with estimated losses ranging from $9.2 billion to $50 billion per year. A recent survey showed that at least one-third of retail manufacturing and service organization employees have stolen company property. Others have estimated that "seventy percent of all workers steal something during the course of their employment. In 1982, approximately 335,000 American workers were arrested for theft from their employers even though "discipline, not arrest, is the normal consequence" of employee theft.