Top Tips to Reduce Staff Absence

According to the CIPDs research, absence costs UK businesses £11.6 billion a year and costs employers on average over £660 per employee per year. Absence of workers clearly has an impact on costs and productivity, so it's no wonder many organisations are looking to reduce staff absence, here are our top tips in tackling this issue.

Prevention is better than cure
Invest in your employees and encourage a happy and healthy working environment where all employees feel valued by the business and their colleagues.

Introduce an absence policy
Create a staff absence policy to balance employee and employer needs. These written guidelines are the first step in managing and reducing absence.

Record all staff absence
In order to assess if you have an absence problem you must be able to monitor and measure it. The simple act of recording absence has shown to reduce absenteeism.

Introduce a return to work process
Take time to understand the employee's situation and possible causes of absenteeism. Remember that reasons for absence are not always as clear cut as they may initially appear.

Be proactive, reward attendance
Many organisations effectively use perfect attendance bonuses or set targets as an incentive to reduce absence levels.

Remove return to work barriers
Inflexible working hours for working parents or difficult building access when an employee has mobility issues.

Seek professional guidance
When dealing with an absence problem seek professional HR and occupational health guidance and document everything.

Analyse and act on absence
Use the Bradford Factor for impartial identification of absenteeism. Assess the impact on the business and have the evidence to act.

Today taking control of absenteeism is a key business priority
There’s no excuse not to be in control of absence. Activ Absence Control enables you to record, control and monitor absence levels and trends. The cost savings and productivity improvements make such a solution pay for its self over and over again.

"We were looking for an absence management solution to use in our dynamic fast growing firm. Activ Absence Control is enabling us to implement our absence policies in a paper free environment,
it allows us to manage all leave bookings and staff sickness through modern, easy to use web interface. The ability to have access to staff leave an absence records even when working remotely will be an invaluable asset to our partners." Darren Lewis, Partner, Thomas Simon Solicitors

Our clients include:
healthcare SME’s professional services manufacturing public sector

Top Tips to Reduce Staff Absence

Activ Absence Control software will improve your absence management and reduce the cost of those absences to your organisation.