Employee Absenteeism and Lack of Mental Health Support: How can we do better?
People miss work for various reasons, many of which relate to sickness, personal issues and poor mental health.
Unfortunately, employee absenteeism has serious implications for a team’s workload, their overall performance and additional stress on the leaders in the company.
Research has identified that unscheduled absenteeism costs about $3,600 for each worker [1] – but in reality, costs can be a lot higher due to the effect that spill into the entire company’s productivity. In the UK, mental health conditions cause a staggering 70 million workdays to be lost each year, costing employers around £2.4 billion per year. [2]
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