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Sickness absence management can be very time consuming for managers and high levels of sickness absence can have knock on effects within an organisation such as extra expense of covering the absence and low morale in the employees who feel they are always left to pick up the slack.
There are two types of sickness absence, short-term and long-term absence. Short-term absence would be classified as those occasions when people are absent for the odd day or so maybe with a sickness bug or cold symptoms. However long-term sickness absence can be much more chronic. This may entail employees being absent due to long term health conditions such as mental health issues, physical health issues such as back pain or illnesses such as cancer.
Process for managing sickness absence
Proactive sickness absence management
There are a number of things that managers can do in order to proactively reduce sickness absence levels:
Why manage sickness absence?
High levels of sickness absence can have extremely negative impacts on an organisation. There can be a loss of productivity, it can create trust issues if an employee has regular short-term absence, and can cost an organisation a lot financially. So why should we manage people’s sickness absence:
Managing sickness and absence can be very time consuming for managers, however if you take some proactive steps you could reduce your time spent reacting to an employees continued absence. If you are looking for some support on the issues raised in this post, please contact the HR team at amy@almc.co.uk or 0117 970 2755. If you have an employee who you feel may benefit from occupational health, Avon LMC provides Practices access to occupational health services. For more information on this you can contact Pauline at pauline@almc.co.uk or call her on the 0117 970 2755.
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