My father used to work away, but got paid a fixed amount for digs so he took turns with 4 others to drive the 300miles each day , meant early start and late finish but slept in his own bed and made a nice profit out of the boss.
Another "theft" in the work place happened with some of the lads at the place I work too when working in north Wales.
As I said earlier we get bed and breakfast plus £60 a week for meals. Incidently we've been told that whilist this £60 is tax free anything over that is taxed. Now if we get an evening meal provided we lose £10 per day.
However, the very nice lady at the digs in Wales provided an evening meal but only invoiced for b&b , didn't really make any difference to her as she was still getting paid in full so all the lads up there kept all their allowance.