Over 750 of the 1,000 police officers scheduled to work New Years Eve in Rome reported an absence, leaving the city full of party-goers without any police supervision.

The theory is that setting absence targets improves attendance at work but is there evidence to back this? XpertHR has published figures stating that only 44% of employers in the UK set attendance targets, yet of those, 79% believe that the targets have drastically improved their experience of absence management. So why haven’t more companies […]

According to research by Investors In People, 54% of full time employees feel that their employers simply don’t care about their health or wellbeing. They feel that their employer’s only priority is whether their work is done or not, not their health as a result. Other research outlines that over a quarter of workers still […]

It is a common understanding that, on average, zero-hour workers take home less pay than permanent staff. However, recent research has revealed the reality of this monetary gap as reported by the BBC yesterday.

Financial incentives are not guaranteed to increase the productivity of employees. Yes they can certainly work in many circumstances but they are not long term resolutions to potential underlying barriers.

Choosing a new HR system for a business can exciting and fun as well as daunting and sometimes overwhelming. So, we’ve put together a list of tips covering how you should prepare to choose a new system and what it should include.

A recent article in the Economist explores the art of skiving. The following key steps to skilful skiving could be straight from Buffalo Skiver’s handbook.

Buffalo Skiver is one of the Usual Suspects of poor attendance. He is the one who leaves early on a Friday and takes Mondays off to recover from a busy weekend. He will stretch his lunch break an extra half an hour whenever he can and slip off early when no-one is looking.

We’ve nicknamed our long term absentee Usual Suspect Wild Bill Ghost because no one sees him, he is like a ghost in the workplace. Usually when we start to work with a company, some number of ghosts always re-surface.

Learning to deal with the usual suspects will go a long way to solving any absence problem and here’s a starting point to getting it right.