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 ...

Training line managers in absence management reaps rewards for employers, according to research by Personnel Today’s sister publication Employment Review. The survey of 90 employers, with a combined ...

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 ...

You can only solve problems if there is a real and specific problem to solve. As with many obvious things it remains hidden in plain sight and is thus routinely ignored. Costly and time-consuming HR ...