Summary

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.

The first report was published in January 2024 and includes interviews with experts and relevant stakeholders to capture the labour market’s perceptions of labour market crime and its impact on the work environment. Download it here:

Perceptions of the relationship between work-related crime and the work environment

This report, which is the second and final one within this project, collate and enhance knowledge about work-related crime and its consequences for the work environment, primarily from an employee perspective. The questions is "how does work-related crime affect the work environment for employees in different industries?".

Author

Monica Kaltenbrunner, PhD, Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise.