Work disability and sickness absence represent critical challenges that affect individuals’ health, quality of life and socioeconomic participation. These conditions arise when physical or mental ...

British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 420-431 (12 pages) Several studies have shown that frequency of absence attributed to sickness is not distributed randomly but ...

Mental health problems are keeping an increasing number of Norwegians out of the employment market. Treatment alone is often ...

Objectives Evidence on the effect of smoking on sickness absence could guide workplace smoking cessation interventions and encourage employers to promote smoking cessation among their employees. This ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – If you’re sick stay home. Maybe you’ve heard that at work, and as the “tripledemic” continues to hit the state – you may have to take a sick day. But, a mother of four says she’s ...

The biggest threat to workforce resilience today is not AI but people becoming too unwell to continue working, argues James ...

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The number of working days lost to sickness and injury in the UK in 2024 was 148.9m, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data published on Wednesday (4 June). This was a 7% increase ...

Bolsover District Council has recorded its highest number of days lost per full-time employee due to sickness during the ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so far ...

Most UK businesses are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of employee sickness on performance and costs. According to new research from MetLife UK and former UK small business ...