Use incentives and punishment to reduce absence - CBI

摘要

The number of working days lost through staff absence in the UK may be going down but the overall cost to the economy and the taxpayer continues to escalate. This is the main finding of the annual Confederation of British Industry/AXA Absence Survey, which reveals that, in 2005, a total of 164 million working days was lost - a reduction of 4 million on the previous year's figure - while the cost to the economy topped the £13 billion mark. Some 66 million days were lost across the public services, representing a £3.4 billion cost to the country's taxpayers.