One Days Absenteeism Can Cost You 3 Days Salary

It went on to say that the cost of absenteeism to a company equates not only to the

persons salary for the day he or she is not working but up to three times that amount taking into consideration the productive time lost and the cost to hire a temporary replacement.

Jennifer Mathews, online marketing manager of Talent Ocean, says the numbers are probably much higher than that given a lack of data. This lack, he says, is due to the fact that detailed records of absenteeism are hardly kept by South African companies and that this is one of the reasons why absenteeism levels in the country are so high.

There are two types of absenteeism, she says. One is deliberate, which we affectionately referred to as bunkalitis at school. The other is genuine absenteeism, meaning its outside the control of the employee. Genuine absenteeism usually results from injury or sickness and theres not much a company can do to mitigate it, she says.

The biggest cause for genuine absenteeism is influenza and Mathews suggests that a company introduce a flu vaccination programme which will immunise staff members against the latest strains. She also says that wellness programmes at work have shown to reduce sickness at the workplace by, among others, encouraging a healthy lifestyle. Nevertheless, people get sick. Its a fact of life.

Where companies can make a difference, however, is the high level of deliberate absenteeism and the maintenance of proper records can greatly expedite the process. You need to get a sense of the size and cost of your absenteeism problem, she says. Your records, which can be gathered from clock cards or attendance registers, should include such detail as the duration of the absence, trends (which days are most popular for sick leave), costs of the sick leave absences and the type of illnesses that occur most frequently, he says.

These records can then be used to develop a return-to-work interview forum in which the immediate supervisor can talk to the employee about his or her reasons for missing work. This forum is not necessarily an inquisition: it is intended to show that yours is a caring company that looks after the welfare of its employees, she says. However, guilty employees will be taken aback at the detail of your records and will probably think twice before bunking again.

To find out more information about Talent Ocean visit us at http://www.talentocean.co.za.

by: Talent Ocean

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