[danesparza]

This article is exceedingly vague. What is the point of this article, exactly? To scare corporate executive teams? To have something to point to when something inevitably goes wrong?

Yes, there are mercenaries and opportunists in any economy... but writing some vague critique of opportunists doesn't make you smarter or better than them.

[Clent]

Agreed. The article fails to provide evidence that the increase in fraud is significantly changed by layoffs.

There are always people who are going to attempt to game systems.

There are people who work for business and that learn about systemic loop holes.

And there are also a percentage of people who when laid off with go on to exploit those systemic loop holes.

But at what percentage? How many frauds per million layoffs?

I cannot imagine how this would be a concern when determine the cost of a layoff.