As discussed in earlier blogs, absenteeism can have a substantial impact on your bottom line: damaging productivity, efficiency, customer service and employee morale. But what is the most effective way to tackle the problem?

The types and causes of absenteeism vary greatly from employee to employee, so any organisation looking to tackle absenteeism would be well-advised to adopt a wide range of approaches.

But five proven techniques for reducing absenteeism are:

• Adopting policies that offer employees a stronger work-life balance, such as job-sharing, home-working and flexi-time
• Introducing mentoring, counselling and fitness programmes to help combat employee stress and burn out
• Enhancing employee motivation through training and development opportunities
• Conducting mandatory return-to-work interviews after illness
• Offering incentives that recognise and reward good attendance, such as allowing staff with perfect attendance records to leave early on the last Friday of every month

You can read more about how to tackle absenteeism by downloading this free white paper.