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  • Conference Board of Canada Recommends Tracking Employee Absences

    The Conference Board of Canada has released, “Missing in Action: Absenteeism Trending Canadian Organizations” as the first part of a three-part series about absenteeism and disability management.

    Absent employees are costing the Canadian economy a staggering $16.6 billion

    In 2011, full-time employees averaged a 9.3-day absent rate. Within this document, the Conference Board suggests that employers must improve tracking reasons for employee absences so that they can better understand absenteeism, and only 46% of companies track absenteeism (2012).

    Organizations cannot improve absenteeism if they are not tracking it.

    Solutions for tracking absenteeism exist. We also know that most of the companies that do track absenteeism do not track it well, and thus cannot take action on the results.

    Key findings from the Conference Canada research:

    • Absenteeism costs the Canadian economy $16.6B (2012)
    • Average days absent in Canada is 9.3 but varies widely by industry (2011)
    • Only 46% of companies track absenteeism (2012)
    • Survey estimates direct costs at 2.4% of gross payroll
    • Findings do not include direct costs

    Absenteeism requires a holistic approach within an organization.

    What typically falls to Human Resources staff must be collaboratively controlled by frontline management, HR executive staff, and C-level leaders. To help Canadian businesses streamline internal processes and policy implementation for absence management, we offer a customizable software solution that can be tailored to work with your absence management program and close costly loopholes that can affect your productivity.

    Jon Burtenshaw

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  • The Financial Post recognizes Workplace Medical’s Approach to Reducing Avoidable Absences

    The Financial Post writes “Gotcha! The new way to reduce absenteeism while boosting profitability and productivity” featuring Workplace Medical Corp. President, Bill Shapiro. Columnist Mitchell Osak works through the challenges HR departments face with manual reporting and how specialized systems are the way of the future.

    Unplanned and avoidable absences affect company profitability

    New methodologies can help reduce avoidable absences. His first step is to ensure the proper technology is in place to collect “Big Data”. After an organization reviews the employee absence data, they can implement a “Dedicated Solution”. A specialized solution transfers the responsibility of managing individual employee absence records from HR to an absence management software and dedicated third-party staff. Shapiro remarks, “If absence costs showed up as an expense line on the divisional P&L statement, it would get a lot more attention. The problem is that it is has been too difficult to get a hard number for that cost.” Osak adds a unique approach to reducing avoidable absences through “Gamification”: the game is attendance and the reward is recognition, feedback and enhanced status and large companies, like Microsoft, have found success with this approach.

    Are you ready to reduce avoidable absences within your organization?

    To address absence management within your organization, get your Free Reducing Avoidable Absence Assessment Guide today.

    Jon Burtenshaw

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