What is absence management all about?

18/01/22 – Blog

What’s the biggest cause of sickness absence among UK workplaces? How do levels of sickness absence vary between different industry sectors? And why is managing employee absence so important?

In this video, the first of three instalments produced as part of our January Spotlight Series on our Day One Absence Service, Absentia, Medigold Health’s Absence Management Consultant, April Cremins, gives us the answers.


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