Employee Monitoring | Surveillance

Covert surveillance, especially in the area of employee monitoring, is a speciality of Aaden Corporate Investigations Hamburg. Thanks to their excellent investigative training and many years of experience, our detectives are able to master the difficult balance between remaining inconspicuous and maintaining visual contact with the target subject during surveillance operations. Surveillance is the daily bread and butter of Aaden Detective Agency Hamburg: +49 40 4223 6960.

The Enemy Within the Company

Companies are often harmed by their own employees. As a rule, it takes some time before you suspect one or more employees of behaving in a manner that is not contractually compliant. The most common offences are false sick notes, incorrect time-sheet or expense claims, and smaller thefts to your detriment or to the detriment of other employees. But as the saying goes, every little bit helps.

While in the case of more serious offences such as bribery or corporate espionage the perpetrators are fully aware that their conduct constitutes a criminal offence, in the case of smaller offences a sense of guilt is often absent. These acts are “minor offences” in the minds of the offenders, which is why they do not have a bad conscience and do not show the related behavioural signs, as our detectives at Aaden Detective Agency Hamburg regularly observe.

When the Boss Is Out …

… employees sometimes take it a little easier. If this happens only occasionally, it is not exactly pleasing, but usually not tragic either. However, if you have to rely on a staff in which individual employees work like complete failures—or simply do not work at all—or even behave in a directly and intentionally harmful way, this can quickly lead to lost revenue, reputational damage, and customer losses. Prompt action is therefore required. If irregularities, customer complaints, or even formal grievances accumulate, you should not only question your employees’ work ethic, but also have their behaviour observed and documented by the experienced detectives of Aaden Corporate Investigations Hamburg: info@aaden-detektive-hamburg.de.

Variable Investigative Approaches by Our Detectives

Intervention becomes even more urgent if an employee directly harms you, for example through theft or embezzlement of company property, but also through working time or expense fraud, by billing more working time than they actually performed. If this employee works in the field, the offence can often be proven relatively easily through surveillance by our Hamburg detectives. If the employee works in an internal office role, surveillance may often not be possible without being noticed depending on the company structure, and the undercover-placement solution is advisable, in which one of our investigators is employed in your company as a supposed worker. In both variants and in many other case constellations (for example, fake sick leave fraud), our detectives in Hamburg observe the target person, document the case-specific findings, and thereby provide you with court-admissible evidence.