Managing sickness absence is a key issue for employers. Employee absence is a significant cost to the majority of businesses in the UK.
In addition to the direct costs of employee absence (paying sick pay and paying someone else to perform the absent employee’s work), high levels of absence can demotivate those employees who have to take on the absent employee’s work, cause all-round disruption to productivity and adversely affect an employer’s continuity of service to its clients.
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Almost a three-quarters of a million more working days were lost in June and July because of mental health-related absence,...
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Employees took less time off sick last year, yet the bill faced by employers for this absence still went up,...
The average migraine sufferer needs to take 33 days off work a year to cope with their condition, with those...
More than a third of people (34%) with a recurring health condition have lied about the reason why they have...
The average employee worked for more than four days when they were genuinely ill last year, while more than half...
Business in the Community (BITC) and Public Health England have published a toolkit to help employers support their staff in...
“Presenteeism” has more than tripled since 2010, hitting what is believed to be a record high, yet only a minority...
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