The management of employee absence and the benchmarking of absence rates is a key issue for employers. Employers need to maximise the days that your employees come to work and minimise the number of days that they are absent.
Apart from the potential cost of absence within an organisation, there are also issues around motivation of staff, disruption to the business, an adverse effect on customer service levels, and loss of productivity, profitability and business.
Chaotic absence management is damaging welfare and productivity, according to research from insurance firm Ellipse. CEO John Ritchie reveals the...
Labour turnover and absence are the two most fundamental metrics that an organisation can track in order to assess its...
Employers need to act now to avoid disruption caused by absence and misconduct during the 2012 Olympics. Kate Bland, associate...
New Year health and fitness resolutions are responsible for a huge spike in the number of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and...
With several high-profile events taking place in the UK this year, employers may experience higher absence rates. David Prosser explores...
An independent review of workplace health has suggested a key role for occupational health in addressing the UK’s sickness absence...
Take-up of the Government’s Fit for Work service pilots has proved disappointingly low so far, according to an evaluation by...
One of my employees has called to say that he’s not going to be in for work – and won’t...
A conference on managing employee health and absence, organised by XpertHR Events, took place on 23 November 2011. Employee wellbeing...
A government-commissioned review of sickness absence has recommended that an independent assessment service should take over return-to-work assessments from GPs.The...
The vulnerability of workers who take time off, or are signed off, work because of sickness has been highlighted by...
Longer drinking hours in England and Wales have led to more than 660,000 extra days of absence from work every...
The impact of increasing job insecurity and mounting workloads on UK workers has been underlined in a report published today...
Two sets of research by XpertHR have argued that employers remain split about the merits of the fit note, but...
The Government’s “Fitness for Work” assessments have been praised and vilified in equal measure since they were rolled out nationwide in...
