#the HireRight thing was cited in a business textbook

[greatwyrmgold]

Almost half of US and Canadian companies screen job candidates for drugs and alcohol, while hardly any European/Asian/Pacific-region companies do. (At minimum, none of the companies surveyed by HireRight for the “Background Screening Summary” section of their 2020 Global Benchmark Report do. They also don't mention statistics for Africa or Latin America.)

Yet from what evidence I can find (much of it coming from the citations on Hazard "Don't let employers get the testing habit" article), there's no evidence that drug testing has any effect on productivity or safety, or that alcohol and drugs are meaningful risk factors for workplace safety.

Interesting. It's almost like random drug screenings are nothing more than a way for low-class drug users to be shat upon by society.