Cost Of Worker Sickness In UK Reaches Approximately Twenty Billion

Online, December 9, 2010 (Newswire.com) - An analysis carried by the CBI and insurer AXA revealed that 172 million sick days are lost to absence at a cost to the UK economy of nearly twenty billion pounds.

With approximately 12 percent of sick days being described as bogus and most of these coinciding with the weekend, then it is not surprising that employers believe that they are being used as a means to extend the time off of staff members.

In real terms this will mean that an employee can cost you as an employer, almost seven working days and over six hundred and sixty pounds.

Let us not forget that these facts figures just relate to the direct impact on you and your company but you also have to consider the indirect costs of these actions, it means you are having to waste time organising things such as overtime and agency staff plus the drop in customer satisfaction will also prove be a major factor.

You have to admit these facts and figures make for sobering reading and succinctly prove that certain employees have no allegiance towards their employer or company, nor for that matter their fellow workers.

Something that you may not have considered as being relevant or related is that those who are genuinely sick are now going to feel that they are tarred with the same brush as those who are creating an air of suspicion and they will start to feel animosity towards other staff members and management.

If the actions of an employee are giving reason to doubt their motives and claims of illness, then you have to make sure that they are genuine.

Hiring a Private Investigator or a reputable company with previous experience in providing a service that deals specifically with employee related sickness claims is the best way to help determine the righteousness of any claim.

Any company you hire should supply you with photographic evidence, HD video footage and a written report that is time lined so that you are left in doubt whatsoever about a suspected phony claimant.

Especially now, given the recession is still very much in effect, the need to hire a Private Investigator to improve your productivity and staff morale is essential and if in any doubt then the question you need to ask yourself as an employer is; given that the statistics show there has been a recent surge in fraudulent claims of illness, can we afford not to?

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