Case Studies

Our courses have uncovered many seemingly innocuous practices by travelling staff which could have proved critical to the employer. Examples include:

The engineer who frequently travelled to remote areas in Africa and was provided with a car and driver. We uncovered the fact that he regularly drove the vehicle when the driver became tired. This contravened his insurance cover and horrified the HR director who sat in the room. Many of his colleagues admitted they had been doing the same for years.
The academic who phoned the travel department to find out which country he had just flown into - he was too engrossed in his project work to care.
The graduate trainee who was sent to their German office. While there she was issued with a pool car to visit local clients. When she returned to the UK she admitted to her boss she had not actually passed her driving test but was too scared to tell anyone.
The volunteer workers who visited a school in South Africa where they worked with HIV infected children but didn't know it until after they came back.
The lady who successfully sued her employer after being 'let go' due to long-term sickness after she contracted a tropical disease when away on company business. The company had assumed she had been properly inoculated.
The numerous business people who travel without the right inoculations.
The employee who was killed in a car accident in Germany when travelling in a Smart car rather than his usual grade of vehicle. The insurance company is arguing that he may not have been killed in the larger car.
The employee who lost his laptop at the airport and couldn't complete the pitch presentation as all his documentation was held in the bag.
The employee who backed up all his data to memory stick but kept it in his laptop bag which was then stolen.

The FBI estimates that 1 in 10 laptops are stolen each year with the average value of each blue-chip machine stolen being valued at $89,000. The hardware is the easiest and cheapest element to replace.