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How can businesses manage and cope with absenteeism?
By Claire Hibbert
www.icomplete.com
Running a business can be pretty tough and having a reliable workforce is key to surviving in today’s economic recession. What many small businesses fail to realise though, especially in the early stages of setting up or during a recession is that inadequate staffing means overstretched and stressed workers , and consequently the long term affects lead to a high staff turnover, a drop in quality control and customer service causing business to suffer.
In May 2008, statistics revealed that workers took 176m sick days last year costing £11.6bn - up 10m days on 2002. But employers suspect a large slice of that, 15% or some 25m days, were as a result of feigned sickness. Unreliable staff can result for many reasons so what does a company do to when it is left to cope with staff absenteeism? View full article.
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