Although pre-employment background screening is a foundational step in vetting candidates and protecting your organization and workforce, post-hire screening remains critical for employers seeking to avoid legal liabilities, workplace incidents, diminished productivity, reputational damage, and other issues.
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Not all post-hire screening practices are equal in scope, efficacy or reliability – often leaving employee criminal history undetected or detected too late. The Orsus Group's CAM solution offers superior, real-time monitoring, leveraging Direct-Source Data® over traditional arrest-only data. It streamlines processes, eliminates additional manual county-level searches, and saves employers time and money.
In this article, we’ll explore how continuous activity monitoring outperforms other post-hire screenings, helps to protect employees, and offers reliable, real-time data to support responsible and informed criminal monitoring and workforce management.
Which is the Best Post-Employment Screening Method?
Conventional pre-employment background checks can provide thorough and accurate information to employers at the hiring stage, but they only capture an individual’s legal standing at a given moment in time.
Post-hire screening is an advisable step forward to enhance your screening protocols and avoid liability, workplace incidents, or other issues that could arise from an undetected arrest or conviction. Even so, post-employment screening options vary in quality and efficacy. For instance, there is a categorical difference between re-screening and continuous activity monitoring. Using a re-screening process, employees are screened at set intervals (sometimes yearly, but often every three years or five years). The clear disadvantage of this approach is that offenses could go undetected for many months or even years between the pre-established screening dates. Given the unlikelihood that an employee will self-report an arrest or conviction, this oversight risks putting your workforce and organization at great risk.
Continuous activity monitoring empowers your organization to detect any arrest or charge in real time, whether it’s a low-level offense that requires intervention, counseling, or disciplinary action, or a violent crime that necessitates job termination. Regardless of the size of your business, or the industry in which it operates, it’s crucial to mitigate the risk of threats to your workforce, reputation, and financial well-being by ensuring access to real-time reporting of criminal activity.
Safeguarding Your Employees and Reputation
The long-term damage of an undetected criminal record can be quite severe, causing everything from reduced productivity, to six-figure liability settlements, significant re-hiring costs, or even physical and psychological harm to members of your workforce. With workplace theft and fraud on the rise, employers must also be wary of threats to sensitive data and the potential for compromised financial security, whether by insider fraud, embezzlement, or other means.
Ultimately, employers must recognize that undetected criminal information about an employee affects the entire brand and workforce. If employees experience a workplace incident even once, or lack confidence in the screening processes an organization employs, they are likely to feel unsafe, distrustful, and less loyal to the organization.
A recent study reveals that 90% of US workers feel that their organization has an ethical and legal obligation to provide a safe workplace free of risk or harm. Importantly, only 55% of respondents claimed that their employer is heightening safety efforts compared to previous years.
Continuous activity monitoring not only helps employers bypass damage to their brand reputation, but also offer workplace security that exceeds comparable organizations and improves employee retention, talent acquisition, and overall productivity.
How Orsus is Different – Continuous Activity Monitoring with Direct-Source Data
With the understanding that re-screening every 1-5 years is insufficient for mitigating risk, most employers are searching for an automated CAM solution to screen their existing employees and protect their organization in a more comprehensive way.
Continuous Activity Monitoring through The Orsus Group offers a one-stop solution, using Direct-Source Data® live criminal records to conduct nationwide sweeps for your organization every 60 seconds. Utilizing this approach, we gain access to 100,000+ new records each day, eliminating the need for manual county-level searches and offering numerous filter profiles that help you specify the monitoring categories or case types your organization would like to prioritize.
Our solution quickly notifies you of all details regarding a relevant case (including court dockets), offering automated notifications about court dates, charges, and other events or developments. We gather arrest, court, and/or warrant data in real time and follow up on any matches triggered by a hit found; reportable or non-reportable case; disposed case; or under-review case. In addition to this extensive criminal monitoring, we provide regular sex offender monitoring across all 50 states.
Peace of Mind and Mitigated Risk with The Orsus Group
More and more employers are prioritizing employee well-being and safety in the workplace, understanding that it represents a dual investment in their workforce and the organization’s productivity, reputation, and culture. Want real-time, comprehensive criminal monitoring tailored to your business’ needs? Discover the power of The Orsus Group’s Continuous Activity Monitoring. Contact us today to enjoy peace of mind about your post-hire screening process.