Sickness absence on the rise - ONS
March 1st 2011 Instances of sickness absence have increased, according to the Office of National Statistics, after falling as the recession bit last year.
In the first quarter of 2009, 2.1 per cent of employees had a spell of sickness absence, down from 2.5 per cent before the start of the recession.However, in the final quarter of 2010, the percentage of employees having a spell of sickness absence had returned to 2.5 per cent. Taking a weekly average, this equates to around 613,000 employees absent from work and 2 million working days lost.
ONS figures since 2000 show that sickness absence has fallen by about a third in the last ten years (from 3.4% to 2.5%). More articles from Handling & Storage Solutions: | 
