Sickness absence cost £10.7 billion

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2001Sickness absence cost British business a total of £10.7 billion in 2000, an average cost of £434 per employee, according to the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) annual absence survey. Workplace absence averaged 7.8 days per employee amounting to a total of 192 days or 3.4% of total working time….