As HR reported in May, a Harris Interactive survey for the Workforce Institute at Kronos found that 19% of UK workers admit to calling in sick to stay at home and watch sport on TV. Doubtless ...

Absence management is undertaken too often in a vacuum, without examining the evidence for its effectiveness, according to many speakers at a recent gathering of public sector managers. Attendance ...

Employers can do a great deal to ensure their employees remain fit, healthy and able to work. Director of Jelf Employee Benefits Chris Ford looks at how benefits providers can help. A sickness absence ...

There is no shortage of statistics on rates of staff absence. And systems are now being developed that not only record absence data but actually predict when an employee will next be off. The danger ...