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.
Alternatives to how sicknotes are issued are being piloted.
News that pilots looking at alternatives to GPs writing sicknotes are...
Workers taking 'sickies' place a greater burden on organisations than stress-related absence
Sickness absence is no longer a medical issue for employers, it is a strategic one.
Tesco is running trials to see how it can improve its unplanned absences. In the trials, which involve voluntary participation, the retailer is not paying for the first three days of a staff member's sickness. Here's what other HR professionals had to say on the subject.
Employers need to make small but significant changes to internal processes surrounding discipline, illness and annual leave for temporary workers....
How time and attendance software has helped New Look cut staff turnover and improve the bottom line
