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Unplanned absence from work costs the US economy over $576B annually. This pocket guide, based on best practice guidelines, looks at what you can do to ensure your employees fulfill their obligations and turn up as required.
When your organization can no longer meet its deadlines or provide customers with the high quality of service they expect, you have a problem. Unplanned absence also has a bad effect on morale, putting the rest of the team under pressure as they struggle to deal with the additional workload. Unplanned absence can occur as a result of force majeure (for example, when an airline is hit by strike action) or because of poor employee motivation and commitment.
This pocket guide, based on best practice guidelines, looks at what you can do to ensure your employees fulfill their obligations and turn up as required. It then gets to grips with the question of how your organization should handle unplanned absences, before and when they arise. While you may not be able to prevent unplanned absence altogether, the advice contained in this guide will help you to keep the extra costs and disruption associated with unplanned absence to a minimum.
When employees take “pull a sickie day” to recover from the Super Bowl, productivity and morale suffer. This pocket guide tells you some simple measures you can take to put a stop to Monday morning syndrome at the office.
Following the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland, there was travel chaos throughout Europe. This is only the most dramatic example of those unplanned absences that are caused by circumstances beyond an employee’s control. However, you cannot afford to let something like this stop your business in its tracks. By following this pocket guide’s advice, you can ensure continuity of service.
Thanks to the laptop and the smartphone, people who cannot make it to the office can still carry on working. This pocket guide offers you useful advice on how to make the best use of IT when your company is confronted with an unforeseen absence.
Use this pocket guide’s recommendations to manage your employee’s return to work after a period of absence.
Sarah Cook is the Managing Director of The Stairway Consultancy Ltd and has 16 years’ consulting experience, specializing in leadership and management development. She has practical experience of helping managers to create high levels of employee engagement and manage absenteeism. She has an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.