Background

Work-related crime has severe consequences for individual employees and society, and the problem has received widespread attention both within and outside the Nordic region. For those who work where this type of criminality occurs, it can deteriorate the work environment. 

Based on this, and on the Swedish Government’s fourth objective in the national work environment strategy for 2021–2025, which emphasises a labour market free from crime and fraud, the Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise has initiated a project resulting in two reports.

This is the first report on the subject, aimed at gathering knowledge and experience from relevant stakeholders concerning work-related crime and its relationship with or consequences for the work environment and systematic work environment management. The aim was to obtain an in-depth picture of the knowledge of relevant stakeholders of how work-related crime affects the work environment and the health and wellbeing of employees, and of interventions to prevent, reduce or impede work-related crime, thus strengthening the work environment and systematic work environment management.

Find the second report within this project below. It collates existing knowledge from scientific studies, reports and analyses. It highlights how labour market crime affects the work environment from an employee perspective.

The Impact of Work-related Crime on the Work Environment 

Author

Anders Fredriksson, PhD, Vilna AB