absence management solutions
Provides policies, training and professional designation, to keep your business working well
As well as the financial implications, sickness absence can impact on your workplace in a number of other ways: With so much at stake, it’s not surprising that companies say that managing sickness absence is hugely strategically important. Well Working Matters looks at the various causes of sickness absence, as well as presenteeism and leaveism. We’ll also look at the practical steps you can take to help minimise its impact on your business. Low morale can occur when staff members often have to cover for absent colleagues, making their workloads increase and causing morale to fall.
Mistakes can happen. If staff have to cover other people’s jobs it can lead to mistakes which can jeopardise relationships with your customers.
NIDMAR: National Institute of Disability Management and Research
Well Working Matters is the license holder and provider of the internationally recognised NIDMAR education programme. This programme delivers effective return-to-work and absence-management modules, to organisations and professionals, in the absence and disability management field [MORE]
Return to work management sERVICES
protecting people and places
Employers should have good Sickness Absence Policies in place, giving employees clear directions of when and whom they should contact when they are unable to attend work.
Similarly, presenteeism is common among frontline, deskless workers, who through insecure work and non-standard contracts, contribute to millions of pounds of lost productivity every year, in addition to the spreading of illness.
Leaveism also adversely affect employees’ health and well-being: working when ill or not taking opportunities to relax outside work may have far greater impact on employees’ long-term physical and mental health, as well as organisational productivity, than their absence ‘ read more
We are focussed on supporting business to get their employees
back to work
Communication – action plans – evaluation
We specialise in work absence management solutions
We all know that the common cold, flu and stomach bugs are behind many employee absences, but there are many other things that make workers call in sick on a regular basis.
It is only when an employer has robust methods of recording the absences, that they may start to recognise the cost. Well Working Matters have developed a Cost of Absence tool to help employers understand how much each period of absence costs them.
It is important to see how the interventions employers undertake can affect these costs. Reducing the length of time an employee is away may mean that temporary staff are needed for shorter periods, overtime needed for fewer staff, and importantly valued staff are back to the job they were employed to do sooner.
Where employers actively undertake the methods described, they see big differences to their staff morale, their own bottom line costs and productivity.