The HSE estimates that a total of 12.8 million working days were lost to stress, depression and anxiety in 2004/5 and that sickness absence costs the UK economy over £12 billion every year. Inevitably, some of this cost falls to your organisation and this is likely to affect your productivity, retention rates, customer satisfaction and the overall image and reputation your business.
But there are things that you can do to deal with and manage sickness absence. From measuring and monitoring stress and well-being to providing online support for individual staff members and designing policy and processes for managing sickness absence - Robertson Cooper can help you to minimise the costs of absence and maximise the value of your workforce.