Andrew B Cameron

The Cost Of UK Employee Sickness Reaches Almost Twenty Billion

Staff sickness is costing the UK almost twenty billion a year and not surprisingly not all of these sick days are genuine. It is time to catch out these people who throw a sickie just to extend their weekends and holidays.

An analysis carried by the CBI and insurer AXA revealed that 172 million sick days are lost to absence at a cost to the UK economy of nearly twenty billion pounds.

More than one in ten, twelve percent to be exact, of sick days are thought to be non genuine and employers believe that they are being used to extend the weekend of the employee.

In real terms this will mean that an employee can cost you as an employer, almost seven working days and over six hundred and sixty pounds.

Let us not forget that these facts figures just relate to the direct impact on you and your company but you also have to consider the indirect costs of these actions, it means you are having to waste time organising things such as overtime and agency staff plus the drop in customer satisfaction will also prove be a major factor.

These are the sobering statistics that directly affect you as a company and highlights that the point that some employees have no company loyalty and do not give a second thought to taking an unauthorised day off work through feigned illness.

Something that you may not have considered as being relevant or related is that those who are genuinely sick are now going to feel that they are tarred with the same brush as those who are creating an air of suspicion and they will start to feel animosity towards other staff members and management.

Should the motives of an employee with a poor sickness record be called into question, then you need to be able to ascertain the righteousness of the suspicion.

Hiring a Private Investigator or a reputable company with previous experience in providing a service that deals specifically with employee related sickness claims is the best way to help determine the righteousness of any claim.

Any company you hire should supply you with photographic evidence, HD video footage and a written report that is time lined so that you are left in doubt whatsoever about a suspected phony claimant.

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