肯尼亚美容工作室Waxaholic Studio于2024年9月1日开业，但因员工盗窃客户款项，仅一年后于2025年10月被迫关闭。1创办人Boina的遭遇凸显了员工不诚实行为对非洲小企业的严重打击。1
数据显示这并非孤例。根据PwC 2022年的调查，东非地区63%的组织经历过经济犯罪，远高于全球平均的46%。1其中，员工盗窃在小企业损失中占比超过60%。1这种内部盗窃现象已导致多家知名企业蒙受巨额损失——肯尼亚零售商Tuskys超市在2015年审计中发现每月损失超过1亿肯尼亚先令（约58.1万英镑或77万美元），1而另一家超市Nakumatt因员工盗窃损失超1亿美元库存。1个体经营者也未能幸免，肯尼亚电子产品店老板Muftawu Nabila的第三名员工在两个月内每天可盗取30美元。1
应对这一困境，律师Judith Guserwa建议：若员工承认盗窃且同意赔偿，企业应获得书面记录；否则应以有效理由解雇员工并向警方报案。1
Kenyan entrepreneur Boina was forced to shut down her beauty studio, Waxaholic Studio, after experiencing significant losses to employee theft.1 The studio, which opened on September 1, 2024, closed in October 2025.1 Her case has brought attention to a pervasive problem undermining small enterprises across the continent.
Employee theft represents a major threat to African businesses. According to PwC research from 2022, 63% of organizations in East Africa have experienced economic crime, compared to a global average of 46%.1 For small businesses specifically, employee theft accounts for more than 60% of total losses.1 Large retailers have suffered particularly acute damage: Tuskys supermarket discovered during a 2015 audit that it was losing more than 100 million Kenyan shillings (approximately £581,000 or $770,000) each month,1 while Nakumatt supermarket lost more than $100 million in inventory to employee theft.1 In one documented case, a third employee at an electronics shop run by Muftawu Nabila was able to steal approximately $30 daily over a two-month period from a business with estimated daily sales of $200.1
Legal expert Judith Guserwa has outlined steps business owners should take when confronting suspected theft. She recommends that if an employee admits to stealing and agrees to compensate the business, the agreement must be documented in writing; otherwise, employers should dismiss the worker with just cause and report the incident to authorities.1
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