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Employees Behaving Badly?

  Knowing what your workforce is up to makes re-screening worth every penny. By Audrey Roth According to the Society for Human Resource Management, 69 percent of organizations conduct background checks. But do employers know what these background checks could find if they conducted them post-hiring? Yes, it’s true—screening your current workforce is much more complex than the initial check of potential candidates. But the benefits make it a worthy consideration. “Bad behavior doesn’t stop just because you hired them,” says Ken Monroe, director of sales and operations of the screening, drug testing, and verification organization the Background Investigation Bureau. A lot can occur over the course of employment. “You screen today, and that information is as good as the time that we ran it. But tomorrow that information becomes a day old. And in six months it becomes six months old. And so there becomes a need to re-screen,”   The drivers to rescreen run the gamut: Maybe it h