Headlines, PublicNet: 18 October, 2012

Absence in the public sector at 7.9 per employee is the lowest for ten years. But this may not be the result of better absence management.

Absence levels in the public and private sectors are falling. But the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development believes that the fall coincides with almost a third of employers reporting an increase in the number of people going into work ill. The threat of redundancies and concerns over job security are shown to contribute to such ‘presenteeism’, with organisations that are expecting to make redundancies in the next six months more likely to report an increase in employees going into work when unwell, than employers that are not expecting to cut jobs.

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