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Absence management

Absence or attendance management is the develop-

ment  and  application  of  policies  and  procedures 

designed to reduce levels of absenteeism. The CIPD 

(2012)  report  on  absence  management  revealed 

that:

 

●

the average length of employee absence  

was 6.8 days per employee per year;

 

●

larger organizations have higher average 

levels of absence than smaller organizations;

 

●

on average, two-thirds of working time lost 

to absence is accounted for by short-term 

absences of up to seven days; one-fifth is 

attributed to long-term absences;

 

●

the average cost of absence was £600 per 

employee per year.

Something  needs  to  be  done  about  it.  This  means  

understanding the causes of absence, adopting com-

prehensive absence management (or, more positively, 

attendance management) policies, measuring absence 

and implementing procedures for the management of 

short- and long-term absence.