Winter sees most domestic robberies. But do businesses also see a rise in burglaries over this time?
That was the question posed by the UK Business Barometer (UKBB), a monthly internet survey run by the University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation. A quarter of respondents to the UKBB survey think that winter is the most vulnerable time of the year for break-ins, but 57 per cent believe there is no particular season in which firms are most likely to be a target.
In its sister survey, the UK Business Adviser Barometer, 34 per cent of advisers, who were asked the same question, said that winter was the most vulnerable time for physical business crimes but more than half (51 per cent) didn’t believe there was a seasonal pattern.
