When people think of private investigators, they commonly think of surveillance and investigation on a personal or private level. But what can a private investigator do for your business? Plenty! Below is just a sampling of the ways a PI company can help your business.
Background Checks: In today’s environment, businesses of all sizes commonly require background checks. Whether pre-employment or annual, a PI can provide civil and criminal record searches, bankruptcy information, credit reports and driving records. Planning a merger or acquisition? A PI can provide detailed background checks on the other company as well as its owners and partners.
Security Sweeps: Concerned for your employees’ safety? A private investigator can conduct an evaluation of your building’s security and even perform spot checks to confirm that doors are locked.
Employee Monitoring: Need someone to observe employees to ensure they adhere to their route and/or they are not poaching your clients? Naturally, you’d want to hire a PI for that!
Secret Shops: Did you know a private investigator can call, visit or email your establishment to assure your employees are providing excellent customer service?
Surveillance: Want to verify that injured employees or employees on long term absence are legitimately injured or absent? Or perhaps keep an eye on active employees to make sure they are doing their job? Call on a PI!
Collections: Private investigators can assist in recovering bad debt (in accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act rules and guidelines).
Repossessions: Assuming a legal order is in place, PIs can aid in the recovery of vehicles, equipment, etc.
Courier Service: Get support in transporting not just goods or packages, but even employees and clients from place to place.
Location Services: Missing a client or a witness? A private investigator can help you find them. They can also help you locate and vet experts.
Termination Services: No security staff? A PI can be present when an employee is fired and escort them off the property. They can accompany the individual home if necessary, and even secure any company information present at their residence.
Mobile Notary Services: What business doesn’t need a document notarized every now and then?
Most business owners don’t realize how widely they can utilize the services of a private investigations firm. But as you can clearly see, businesses certainly can benefit from partnering with a reputable, licensed and bonded PI outfit.
This article sheds light on the diverse roles private investigators can play in the business world. From background checks to corporate espionage prevention, their services are indispensable. It’s eye-opening how they can safeguard a company’s interests.
Private investigators can really benefit someone in every situation needed. When information is needed, they can gather it for you to help get answers and peace of mind. As a business owner, private investigators can really help! Great article.
I found it interesting when you talked about background checks and how a private investigator could help with them! In my opinion, if you need to hire someone for an important position, it’d be wise to do a background check on them. I believe it’d be best to let a professional investigator conduct it, so I’d say I definitely agree with you! Thanks for the information on how a private investigator could benefit a business owner.
It’s great that you mention that a private investigator can perform background checks on prospective employees for your business. I want to start a business this coming year, so hiring a private investigator sounds like a smart idea. I’m going to search for a good private investigator in the area that I can hire.
Great Post! Thanks for sharing.
I like how you mentioned that a private investigator can check on your shop’s security, having someone check how easy it is to rob your store will be a great help down the line. My sister’s boutique is in a shady part of town, I’m worried that one day she might get robbed while the store is closed. I would like to suggest she get a PI so that she can fix any vulnerabilities her shop may have and prevent such a thing from happening.
It’s terrific that you mention that a private investigator can perform background checks for you if you own a business. I want to start a business this year, so I’m considering hiring a private investigator to do background checks for me. I’m going to look for a reliable private investigator in my area that I can hire.
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Well, thank you for sharing here that a private investigator will benefit a business through checking if their employees are providing an excellent service. You are also right that an investigator will be able to find any missing clients too. Anyhow, if I had a company, I would make sure to hire this type of service so it will be easier to manage the business.
Ah yes, at my firm we do a lot of background checks and most folks forget that we do whole bunch of other stuff as well. I’m glad that you were able to break it down to what services most private investigators provide. All in all this was a wonderful post!
Thank you for sharing this information about what can a private investigator do for your business. It was useful and interesting. You indeed have written it in a layman way so that anyone can understand and work accordingly. You have done a great job… Great post!!
I liked that you explained that a private detective can handle doing background checks for you. That is great for me to know because my sister wants to open a bakery by the end of August this year. She needs to start looking for employees soon. She should probably get an investigator to do background checks on people she is considering hiring.
It’s so interesting that PIs can help recover vehicles and equipment because I can see why that would be important. My business partner thinks that we should hire a PI to help us ensure customer quality. I didn’t really know how that worked but now that I do I think it’s a great idea!
Great post! Thanks for sharing some valuable info about private investigators. Keep up the great writing.
It’s helpful to know we could use a private investigator to do thorough background checks when we’re looking for more staff. We handle sensitive information and don’t want to risk having someone misuse it or deliberately get hired to steal it. Hiring someone to look into our candidates before we hire could help us maintain security.
That is a good point that a private investigator could do a background check to keep our employees safe. Maybe it would be good to get a private investigator to help out with that. This is something I will have to suggest to my boss soon.
I liked it when you mentioned that you can hire a private investigator to visit your shop or business to interact with and ensure your employees provide an appropriate standard of care. My brother works as an aquatics facility manager and over the last month has become suspicious of the way things are operating while he is away from the building. I will be sure to recommend that he hire a private investigator to act as a pool guest and ensure the staff is providing the proper level of care with the proper lifeguarding strategies.
I did not know that a private investigator can conduct an evaluation of your building’s security and even perform spot checks to confirm that doors are locked. My boss told me that he would like to have someone to trust so that he or she can provide him with any relevant information from employee’s evaluations. I will recommend him to hire a private investigator so that my boss can gather that information.
It’s interesting to know that a private investigator can conduct an evaluation of your building’s security to confirm the safety of your clients. My father bought a restaurant inside a mall, and we are looking for advice to ensure that it is ready to receive a customer. I will let him know about the benefits of hiring a private investigator to help my father.
I like that you said that a secret investigator can check on your employees. I own a clothing store and I would like to know this. I think I will look into hiring someone to check on my employees.