Staples, the office supply company has recently claimed that works 'robberies' are costing employers around £1.2bn a year.
Everyone knows that the stationery cupboard gets rifled by employees for pens and other consumables. However, the problem is apparently getting worse with printer cartridges and software CDs going missing.
Employees are expensive beasts and if you add on personal phone calls, faxes and photocopying the problem becomes worse. According to Staples, a company with 10 employees could be losing around £4,000 in 'lifted' stationery.