Sickness absence increased last year following the end of the furlough scheme, new Covid variants and the decline in homeworking, official figures show. The sickness absence rate rose to 2.2%, from a ...
British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 420-431 (12 pages) Several studies have shown that frequency of absence attributed to sickness is not distributed randomly but ...
With a new report from XpertHR stating sickness absence rates are at their highest levels in a decade and four in ten employers believe they are too high, Adrian Lewis, Director at Activ People HR ...
Jarno Turunen, senior specialist at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and M.Sc. (Econ), has investigated the effects of shift work characteristics on the sickness absence of shift workers ...
Employees who take long spells of sick leave more than once in three years are at a higher risk of death than their colleagues who take no such absence, particularly if their absence is due to ...
Welcoming the report from the Department for Work and Pensions and the Health and Safety Executive on managing sickness absence in the public sector Welcoming the report from the Department for Work ...
Ten years of official labour market data shows wide regional gaps in time taken off work, with long-standing patterns that ...
Objectives Evidence on the effect of smoking on sickness absence could guide workplace smoking cessation interventions and encourage employers to promote smoking cessation among their employees. This ...
Caerphilly Council has been urged to tackle the issue of staff sickness absence following a report showing it was on the up. The data for 2024-25 revealed the council lost 14.69 days due to sickness ...