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Sabotaging rises | Staff are harming their employers - what should HR do?

Staff are harming their employers - what should HR do?
Staff are harming their employers - what should HR do?

When a candidate goes through your selection process, and they are lucky enough to be picked, the last thing you would expect from them is that they would betray your trust or cause any harm to your organisation.

But recently, stories have emerged of employees purposefully sabotaging their employer, causing potential harm to customers or the business by damaging its brand.

One factory worker for the chicken restaurant Nando’s was jailed for three years after he admitted to contaminating food with plastic gloves, bags, and metal ring pulls set to go to Nando’s.

Whilst another employee for the Chinese beer brand Tsingtao Brewery Co. is under investigation after a video went viral, garnering tens of millions of views, of the worker urinating into a container of ‘raw materials’ used in the beer’s manufacturing process.

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