Conducting return-to-work interviews with staff who have been away on short-term sick leave is seen as one of the most effective methods of managing and reducing the short-term staff absences that can be so costly to businesses, a survey has shown.

In the CIPD’s tenth national survey of absence management policy and practice, almost two-thirds of the surveyed companies cited return-to-work interviews as one of the most effective methods of managing short-term absenteeism; making it by far and away the most highly-rated approach.

83% of  the surveyed companies said they conducted return-to-work interviews with short-term absentees, while 74% said they conducted interviews with long-term absentees.

You can download the survey here.

To help organisations take advantage of this highly-effective method of managing absenteeism, LeaveMaster includes an invaluable return-to-work questionnaire that can be used to quickly and easily conduct return-to-work interviews with staff who have been away on both short and long-term sick leave.

To find out more about the return-to-work feature on LeaveMaster, call us on 0800 33 456 30 or contact the Systems Valley team.