Some employees have no company fidelity and won't give a second thought to taking an unapproved day off work via feigned illness. This creates an environment of suspicion among fellow colleagues and senior staff and finally affects those who are bonafide.

Making an investment in the services of a Private Investigator can save you cash in the long term when it comes to determining fake declarations of employee sickness.

To realise just how a Private Investigator will help you and your business you first need to know exactly how much employee sickness is affecting the economy.

A review carried out for the Confederation of British Industry and the insurer AXA determined that nonattendance due to being ill was measured at an amazing 172 million sick days and cost the UK economy close to 20 billion pounds.

With roughly 12 % of sick days being described as false and many of these coinciding with the weekend, then it is not surprising that employers believe that they are being used as a means to prolong the time taken off.

On average a worker who takes time off their work thru feigned illness can cost, as an employer, higher than six hundred and sixty pounds and nigh on seven working days.

Apart from the clear statistical data of direct monetary and man hour loss, you should also take into account the additional time and effort that you will now have to put in to organize cover for this employee, inclusive of organizing overtime or the utilising of agency staff and let us not forget that you're going to suffer a loss of client credibility as a result of their uncaring act.

The figures speak up for themselves and should help you realise that not all staff share an allegiance to you or the firm or their colleagues and are prepared to take extra time off for something as insignificant as extending their weekend free time.

Something that you may not have regarded as being important or related is that people who are truly sick are now going to feel that they are tarred with the same brush as people who are making an air of suspicion and they're going to start to feel ill will toward other staff members and management.

Should you begin to suspect that one of workers isn't legitimate in their declarations of being affected by an infirmity that's preventing them from attending their workplace then you've got to remove all doubt.

Hiring a Private Investigator or a reputable company with prior experience in providing a service that deals particularly with employee related illness claims is the easiest way to help identify the authenticity of any claim.

Any company you hire should give you photographic evidence, HD video film and a written report that's time lined so you are left in doubt at all about a suspected phony complainant.

Especially now, given the recession is still very much in reality the need to hire a Private Investigator to enhance your productiveness and staff morale is crucial and if in any doubt then the question you must ask yourself as an employer is; are we able to afford not to, given that the latest figures and research points toward a surge?

The author works alongside a prize-winning private investigator who is one of the highest regarded in Great Britain today, a Private Investigator who has many years of experience of dealing with and catching false claimants.