Did you know that the average UK employee takes almost seven days off sick a year, at a cost to the UK economy of £13.2 billion a year (2008 CBI/AXA Absence Survey)? Yet of the 172 million days that are lost to absence each year, 21 million days are thought to be taken by employees who aren’t actually ill.

So if you could reduce the amount of unwarranted sick days taken in your organisation, even by a small percentage, how much money could you save? And where do you begin the process of tackling the problem?

A well-advised place to start is to introduce a system for accurately recording and monitoring employee leave and absence in your organisation, which is where a web-based application such as LeaveMaster is invaluable.

LeaveMaster allows you to accurately record and analyse all forms of workplace leave and absence, making it easy to spot and deter employees who have been getting away with taking unwarranted sick days. And thanks to its reporting functions, you can also use it to identify absenteeism patterns and trends that may previously have been overlooked.

You can read more about LeaveMaster here.