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.
Employees who are absent from work are costing almost nothing to business, research from Swansea University has suggested.
A new website has been launched to show companies just how much money they are losing when staff go off sick
The government must be disappointed that its efforts in reducing public sector sickness absence are not rewarded with better results
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) annual absence survey (PersonnelToday.com, 17 July) was, as usual, a great opportunity to beat the public sector with the very old and tired stick that says it doesn't manage absence well
UK employers lost an estimated £168m a day in productivity during last week’s heatwave, according to a report
Rising temperatures across the UK are predicted to scorch businesses as absenteeism levels rise.
Public sector absence is 25% higher than the private sector at almost 10 days per employee per year, compared to 7.5 days for businesses, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Clare Young, a solicitor at DWF, provides guidance on drawing up a policy for time off for dependants.
Paul Roberts argues that, because most of the World Cup games kick off after 5pm, there should be no problem...
'Sickies' have become an endemic part of working life, according to a study by health benefits provider HSA, and specialist magazine Employee Benefits
As an England fan, I’m used to the World Cup often being a painful experience, but I usually suffer on my sofa, not in the office.
Absence? What absence? When firms have followed the advice, tips and tricks often published in employee benefits magazines on subjects...
HR departments battling to improve attendance figures in their organisations will not have welcomed comments from the Amicus union last...
So World Cup fever could cost employers £4bn through internet abuse?
An employers’ group has accused the union Amicus of advising people on how to take 'sickies' during the World Cup
