Taking a pencil or a few sheets of copy paper is hardly a major offense, indeed for many workers and their employers; this is simply incidental use and engenders no real harm and happier employees. At what point does this “incidental use” progress to “petty theft”? Employers are losing billions of dollars each year due [...]
Image via Wikipedia In 2003, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) instituted an asset tracking program in order to track DoD property under the control of external contractors. This arose amidst claims of of contractors misappropriating assets, employing wasteful practices and generally charging exorbitant sums for work which should not have been charged. Some readers [...]
Environmental factors affect business decisions more and more as politicians and consumers become increasingly aware of the effect our society has on the environment. This is not restricted to the end-user, typically retail use of products such as recycling packaging, reducing gas consumption and so on, nor in the raw sources of materials, such as [...]
Asset labels, asset tags, property id tags, identification labels and many other terms are all simply synonyms – they refer to the same item, frequently referred to as an “asset tag”. A modern, well-designed and manufactured asset tag will typically have a semi-permanent adhesive backing and usually, a metal overlaid plate upon which the reference [...]
