Job Rotation is an internal preventative control that, much like separation of duties, helps mitigate insider threats by removing single points of failure. Blindly putting trust in any one employee to perform critical tasks by themselves puts your business in danger of fraud or misuse that may go undetected for a long time. Job rotation helps mitigate this risk by swapping out employees on a set schedule, putting the critical tasks in different hands. This increases the chances of misuse being detected and reported. Job rotation can also help foster a healthy work environment as employees can offer feedback and advice to one another regarding their job performance on shared tasks.
As a small business owner, you may have hired your employees to perform specific, dedicated jobs. So, while it is important to ensure employees work within their skillsets and job descriptions, it wouldn’t hurt rotating tasks between multiple employees per department.
If you run a retail-oriented business, you could have the cashiers, stockers, and cleaners rotate jobs every other week to ensure that no one group is left in charge of the cash. If your business has any socials, you could put a different person in charge of running your company pages every month, off-boarding everyone else’s accounts until it is their turn to run the pages. This will ensure that customer engagement is not placed in the hands of one individual constantly.