If employees are frequently not showing up or quitting with no notice it can through off business plans! Here is what you can do to manage it. Call to action will be to work with People Plus to find quality employees
Absenteeism, when employees fail to show up to work, costs your company, big time, to the tune of $3,600 per year for each hourly workers and $2,660 for each salaried employee. There are administrative costs in addition to production losses as well as indirect expenses such as poor morale with the workforce left covering for the absent worker. How can you manage this problem in your business in a way that benefits everyone?
Managing to the Absent Worker
While you don’t want workers to show up sick, you also don’t want them to be absent, either. Absenteeism is a problem in the U.S. workforce today, and it costs employers more than $33 billion every year.
There are all kinds of reasons the employee could miss work, from illness and injury to a childcare issue. However, the worker could also simply be disengaged from your business, depressed, or looking for another job instead of showing up to work. How can you manage this more effectively?
- Understand the “why” behind the absent worker. Figuring out the drivers of absenteeism in your workplace is the first step toward figuring out how to change the trend. This research may be second hand, mind you; you probably won’t get a real answer from a worker who is looking for another job, for example. Talk to your managers and supervisors as well as your trusted employees to find out what’s going on.
- Look at your workplace policies to determine if unclear expectations are the culprit. Are you giving your workforce the time they need to care for their families? Is your time-off policy not realistic or is it that workers simply don’t understand the rules?
- Meet with your employees to work together on a solution. We recommend transparency to talk with individuals and teams about the issues that are affecting them. Talk about the burden of a call-off and how to create a better work environment where everyone is pulling together to help people when they need it. The idea here is that you engage your workforce in the success of the organization by candidly addressing the issue and working on a solution together.
- Create a better work environment so that people want to be there. This goes to the heart of your culture but it also affects things like the relationship between supervisors and their teams. Are you giving your managers the training they need to lead more with the carrot than the stick? Are you creating an environment where workers can make and nurture positive friendships? Are you rewarding employees regularly for their performance and recognizing even the small wins? All of these things will help you retain your workforce and potentially cut down on issues of absenteeism that are costing your business big money every year.
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