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.
The latest CBI/Axa survey show that absence rates have fallen to their lowest levels in almost 20 years, as Nic Paton reports
Spotlight on… World Cup sickies
Lancashire Constabulary has slashed absence rates among police officers by 17% in the past year, effectively putting 25 more officers on the streets each day
John Prescott's recent behaviour would have ended in dismissal for most corporate execs.
The cost of staff absence to the UK economy rose to more than £13bn in 2005 - its highest level ever - according to a survey of 400 organisations.
In the third part of our in-depth series, Sally O'Reilly reports on the government's proposals to get a million people off incapacity benefit and back into work, and the likely impact on the UK's OH nurses
The NHS is tackling absenteeism by promoting an innovative staff benefit that allows parents to find emergency childcare with less than an hour's notice
How do you manage the not unlikely event that staff will want to watch the football World Cup on TV?
Contract terms for sickness absence and part-time working requests.
The World Cup could affect productivity if one in seven workers bunk off to watch a match.
With changes to incapacity rules currently under consultation, William Bateman offers a timely reminder of the law surrounding long-term sickness absence
Insomniacs have a significantly higher rate of absence at work than those who sleep well, according to a study published in the US journal Sleep.
British employers spend just £97 a year, or less than 30p a day, on the health and wellbeing of each employee.
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