‘Everyone steals from the firm’
NZPA London: The vast majority of Brit(ish workers from the shop: floor to the director's board-j room commit crime daily — often without giving it a ; second thought — according ito a London University soci-‘ ologist, Dr Stuart Henry. Dr Henry spent three years on research into crimes ranging from pilfer- ( ing to cheating on expense accounts. And in “The Hidden Economy” published this! week he claimed that the i scale of the problem was, enormous, with about £2500 million (about $4500 million) —"
being taken in Britain every year. Dr Henry cited extensive : American surveys that had ( | found 75 to 90 per cent of' ; working people admitted to; pilfering or fiddling at work, though many did not regard I !it as anything wrong. He ar- j gued that the statistics were: identical for Britain. “The extraordinary thing (is that people don’t consider ( they are doing anything j i wrong,” said Dr Henry.! “They are prepared to condemn (conventional) criminals but they see their own activities as perks —part of j what they get for working.” —
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Press, 24 June 1978, Page 9
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