By Catherine Powell
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If you're a business owner, then you know that keeping a business profitable is an uphill battle. If it isn't things like COVID and inflation that make it difficult to keep your ship of commerce off the rocks, then it's increases in the cost of supplies and taxes that cause you to lose sleep at night. As bad as all of those things can be to your company's bottom line, there's one item that can prove far more devastating to profitability: employee theft. Like it or not, all employees don't have an employer's best interest at heart. Some of them can and will use your business to go into business for themselves, while others are interested in doing your business in. If you don't have the proper safeguards and oversight in place, you may soon find that your employees are taking your business for a ride to a place you don't want to go. Below are the top-10 ways employees can rip your business off and what you can do to keep them from rob you blind.