The sickness absence rate climbed to 3.1% in 2021 – equivalent to 7.3 days per employee – as more than four in 10 UK employers feel sickness absence at their organisation is too high. The sickness ...

The percentage of working hours lost to sickness absence rose to 2.6% in 2022, the highest it has been since 2004. According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, this was an increase of ...

Gun Johansson, a postgraduate at the Swedish Medical University Karolinska Institute, introduces the illness flexibility model to clarify the causes of sickness absence at work. The model assumes that ...

The sickness absence rate has fallen to an average of just over four days a year for every worker, according to new figures. An estimated 148.9 million working days were lost in the UK because of ...

Bolsover District Council has recorded its highest number of days lost per full-time employee due to sickness during the ...

The sickness absence rate in Northern Ireland has hit an eight-year high of 2.7% - the equivalent of six days per worker, a report said today. And the toll of lost working days in the Northern Ireland ...

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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 ...

In total, 148.3 million working days were lost across all industries in the last year, a reminder that sickness absence ...

Before they have children, men and women are approximately equally often absent from work due to illness. But after the birth of their first child, the mother has about twice as many days of absence ...