Figure 4 The Length of Time Companies Drug Tested
Figure 5 Pre-Employment Drug Screening
a drug testing program provides a signifi- cant return on investment (9, 10). Also, with the drug abuse epidemic spreading away from conventional street drugs such as heroin, marijuana and cocaine to pharmaceuticals, designer drugs, synthetic drugs such as bath salts and spice the employee drug abuse problem will only grow in the future. This shift has been documented and followed since early 2000 by the Office of the President and Justice Department and an action plan has been developed to address this growing problem (11). Unfortunately there has been little research on the cost benefits of establishing a drug testing program over the past decade (12, 13, 14, 15). In order to address this question, DATIA commissioned the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) to help with the design of the study and the tabulation of the findings outlined in this report. The study was conducted from March 1st to March 14th
, 2011.
Survey Methods A series of multiple choice questions
were developed by DATIA and further refined by SHRM. These questions were then put into a web based survey tool and sent to a sample of 6,000 randomly selected human resource professionals from SHRM’s membership of approxi- mately 250,000 members. A response rate of 20% was achieved, with 1,058 human resource professionals participat- ing in the poll; the margin of error for the poll is +/-3%.
Population Demographics The majority (80%) of the respon-
dents worked in organizations of 2,500 employees or less (see Figure 1): More than one-third (36%) had 100-499 employees, nearly one-quarter (24%) had 1-99 employees and one-fifth (20%) had 500-2,499 employees. One-half of
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