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Article: Overcoming the sticky problems of regular absenteeism.(Business Report)
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- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2009
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If people are the greatest asset in your business, it stands to reason that absent staff are the biggest liability. We all get sick and this is not usually a train smash, until there is a staff member who is constantly off sick.
Flu and other respiratory illnesses are estimated to cost South African companies billions of rand each year in lost production and replacement staff. And that's only for legitimate sickness.
What about the huge number of people who take sick days but are healthy?
Infinite Risk chief executive Peter Smanjak, in his HR Future article in April, said surveys found the absenteeism rate in the US hours workforce was about 9 ...