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Long-term sickness absence survey 2011: employers' experience
The impact of long-term sickness absence differs widely among employers, according to the latest XpertHR research. While it accounts for, on average, 28% of all days lost to sickness, this varies from nought to 90%, with the lowest impact occurring most frequently among small and medium-sized organisations.
Good practice: Sickness absence management
This section of the XpertHR good practice manual discusses the management of both long- and short-term sickness absence, including measures to promote employee health and reduce absence, sickness absence policies, paying sick pay and rehabilitation after long-term sickness.
Absence rates survey 2011: 2.8% of working time lost
The latest XpertHR research finds that absence from work was worth 2.8% of working time in 2010, equivalent to an average of 6.5 days per employee. The cost of absence amounted to £553 per employee when averaged across the whole workforce.
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MANAGING LONG-TERM SICKNESS ABSENCE
Managing long-term sickness absence creates different challenges when compared with managing ad hoc and short-term absences. Long term sickness absence is most commonly defined as a period of sickness absence of at least four weeks' duration, and, among the 166 employers we surveyed, an average of 28% of total days lost to sickness absence in the past 12 months was due to long-term sick leave.
This is significantly less than in 2009, when the average was 43%, and, while not a matched sample of employers, it will be interesting to see if this trend continues when we next repeat our survey.
This issue also includes our good practice guide to managing long-term sickness absence, which looks at measures to promote employees' health and reduce absence, paying sick pay and rehabilitation after long-term sick leave.
 Noelle Murphy
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