More than two-thirds of business leaders across the UK have no idea how much employee sickness is costing their business, according to e-days, the absence intelligence platform.
| Published: 28 June 2020
More than ever, employers need to be able to track and manage employee absence and holidays efficiently. With many people working remotely, managers need visibility of who is working, who is sick or caring for dependents and who is on annual leave or has been furloughed.
| Published: 7 April 2020
With 64 matches crammed into the space of a month, and the majority of kick-off times (ranging from 11am to 8pm) taking place during normal office hours due to the time difference, the World Cup has the potential to cause disruption to the workplace as many employees will want to see their favourite team in action.
| Published: 11 June 2018
According to a report by ERS Research and Consultancy, sickness absence costs UK businesses an estimated £29bn annually with the average worker taking 6.6 days off each year. It can cause a range of problems: work doesn’t get done or remaining employees can get over-worked, there can be a drop-off in productivity, things can fall through the cracks.
| Published: 3 March 2018
Employees are most likely to call in sick between 7-8am, with 7am on Monday 11th Dec coming in as the hour with the highest number of sick calls. It's important to note that this date had the highest overall absence rate out of the year and was the day on which the UK saw widespread snow.
| Published: 15 February 2018
With an estimated 39 million working days lost due to sickies every year, many UK businesses are throwing time and money down the drain, according to research conducted by Citation. Two in five (41 percent) employees confessed to pulling at least one sickie in the last year, and more than half a million have pushed their luck by pulling more than eight.
| Published: 21 November 2017
A quarter (23 percent), or 7 million UK workers, wouldn’t take a sick day unless they were hospitalised or had ... View Article
| Published: 11 October 2017
Over half (52.5 percent) of UK employees feel guilty about taking sick days, with the majority (50.6 percent) stating that this is because they are leaving their team in the lurch. This is according to the latest data from CV-Library, the UK’s leading independent job board, which found that women feel most guilty about sick leave (60.5 percent).
| Published: 11 July 2017
To coincide with ‘World Day for Safety and Health at Work’, global office solutions brand, Fellowes, has published new research urging business leaders to tackle the growing problem of ‘presenteeism’ across Britain.
| Published: 3 May 2017
Recent research from Legal and General[i] highlighted that 68 per cent of UK employers claimed that absenteeism is a growing cost issue for their business. Adrian Lewis, Director, Activ Absence.
| Published: 13 March 2017
