Home About Our Blog Is your business suffering from Absenteeism?

 

Did you know that it is suggested that the cost of one of your workers being absent from work for one day is $578! Absenteeism costs around $44 Billion dollars every year to Australia and quite apart from the monetary aspect other issues such as lower moral amongst other workers, the inefficiencies from having to utilise workaround scenarios to get the job done and lost productivity to the business makes absenteeism a huge problem.

 

While many people are absent from work, because they are actually ill or need to have some personal carers time, there are other reasons why people may be absent.

 

Disengagement with the business is one major cause. Lack of engagement to a role, to the business or to the people within the work team increases the chances of absenteeism. This is something that needs to be addressed by your management team, HR team or outsourced HR provider. 

 

Perhaps your business is suffering from an ‘entitlement culture’ where people feel entitled to take every bit of leave owing to them. One must question where this culture stems from and why people feel like this. If workers are engaged with the business, they are less likely to feel like this. The old culture of ‘takin’ a sickie’ may still prevail in your workplace and it can be a difficult and slow process to remove. Sickies on Mondays, Fridays and after big events are common place in some workplaces and steps need to be taken to remove this culture.

 

Mental health issues are a growing concern and affect the workplace as more people succumb to stress and mental health related issues.  There are a number of risk factors that employers can actively work to reduce the possible impact on worker’s mental health. Look at mentally, physically or emotionally demanding work with poorly designed workflows and relentless work pressure. When work stress is very high or prolonged it can turn into a work related psychological injury.

 

 

Call 923|HR for assist with all of these initiatives from polices to research and workplace investigations. Our Career Coach provides an employee assistance program under 923|Candidates which maintains a barrier of confidentiality between the workers and our HR work with the business. We have ability to refer further to clinical psychologists if required. Our HR division can train your managers and improve your business culture. Give us a call today 1300 923 000

 

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