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The corporate surveillance business is booming. That’s because companies are hiring bounty-hunters to go after truant employees. Kronos, a workforce productivity firm, recently found that 57 percent of U.S. salaried employees take sick days when they’re not really sick. That’s a nearly 20 percent increase from statistics gathered from 2006 to 2008. Eric Spitznagel’s article in Businesswe

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