Not all sick leave is the result of genuine illness, a new survey says. In fact 20 per cent of staff 'takes sickies'. The poll for Aon Consulting claimed thousands of workers took 'sickies' to look after family and friends. The group polled 7,500 workers across Europe, including 1,005 in the UK. In an earlier survey conducted by the CBI and insurers AXA, the highest levels of absence were found in the north-west, which lost 8.8 days an employee per year. Companies in Liverpool, Manchester and the surrounding area can redress the balance with a hi-tech clocking system from Time and Attendance North West.
It will give you irrefutable control over Time & Attendance and working patterns rules. Clocking in and out is simple: just hold the smart card for a moment in front of the reader and it reads automatically. This information can be exported in many forms to allow integration with existing payroll software. Individual and group absence planners, reporting generator outputs to web pages, text or CSV, standard ExplorerTM style interface — these are just some of the features included.