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Workplace Misconduct Makes the News in May 2023

Workplace Misconduct in the News - February 2023

Workplace misconduct is a big problem. Even worse, it's extremely common. See these 9 recent headlines of employee, executive, and investment misconduct.

5 Easy Ways to Identify and Prevent Workplace Misconduct in 2023

Walk through key strategies, best practices, and work tech solutions that HR and Recruiting teams can use to identify and prevent misconduct at work.

5 Types of Work Tech Solutions to Identify and Prevent Workplace Misconduct (and the Pros & Cons of Each)

Today’s workforce requires new strategies and technologies to prevent, identify, and act on workplace misconduct. Learn 5 work tech solutions to help.

Fama Research

Most up to date findings from Fama's Fact File.

Research

The Impact of Workplace Misconduct on Executive Search

Executives don’t just need to be qualified in their functional business area, they also need the right skills and values to properly lead a team. Employee misconduct is so costly and pervasive that occupational fraud alone costs companies 5% of their annual revenues. Employers paid $137 million to employees for harassment in 2020. In total, US companies spend roughly $50 billion a year because of workplace crimes.

How Online Screening Can Impact Quality of Hire

2020 Social Media Benchmarking Reports

The Legality of Online Screening

The Toxic Employee Handbook

Few hiring managers, recruiters or HR professionals are fully aware of the costs that come from having a single toxic employee. Written by Dr. John Sullivan, the “Michael Jordan of Hiring,” this handbook will clarify the range of damages caused by toxic employees and show you how to develop a hiring process that prevents toxic employees from ever coming on board.

The Cost of A Toxic Hire

Toxic employees damage turnover, shareholder value, insurance premiums, and more. Working with our clients and the broader research community, we’ve found fresh data showing that toxic hires cost more than you might think.

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Improving Quality of Hire by Evaluating Candidate Behavior

We partnered with ERE Media on a webinar to help talent acquisition professionals better understand how to improve quality of hire by evaluating candidate behaviors. The experts discussed: Defining what quality hire means for your organization Strategies and best practices to evaluate quality of hire Tools and solutions that can help And even what happens when companies make the wrong hire