Indianapolis, IN -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/21/2009 -- When a company suffers losses due to employee theft, inventory loss, abuses of benefits and embezzlement (shrinkage), getting to the bottom of that loss can mean all the difference in a profitable year over a break-even year. But what’s a manager or CEO to do when the source of the lost information, inventory or profits cannot be found?

The answer may lie in an undercover operation that puts the eyes and ears of management in places they don’t typically go, according to Tim Wilcox, President of Indianapolis-based International Investigators, Inc.

“An undercover operation gives the floor-level, down-in-the-trenches viewpoint management needs to ferret out activity in the workplace that can lead to corporate losses,” said Wilcox. “Our licensed investigators can be inserted into the operation at the level where it is believed the greatest opportunity for theft lies.”

These licensed investigators are trained to reflect the social, ethnic, and economic manner of his or her co-workers, building confidence and trust among the workforce while gaining valuable leads and information that is discreetly passed on to management for swift action.

“Shrinkage—corporate losses due to embezzlement, theft or employee abuses—costs companies approximately 4% a year in overhead,” Wilcox added. “You think those companies are just eating that cost? Or passing it along to consumers? Our embezzlement investigations and undercover operations are an effective deterrent to more kinds of theft than you can imagine.”

Wilcox asserts his firm’s undercover investigations have exposed a wide, inventive swath of ways for employees to actively or inadvertently affect the bottom line of the company, including employee drug use, internal and external theft, deliberate or accidental security leaks, even outright embezzlement and sabotage.

“You need an inside out perspective on how employees are taking advantage of the system in place,” added Wilcox. “That’s our bottom line—finding those hidden flaws and weaknesses that ultimately affect the company bottom line.”

For more information about undercover operations and the specific detailed services available from their Indianapolis location, please visit http://www.iiiweb.net.