Long weekends and random days off costs UK £100bn a year

Long weekends and random days off costs UK £100bn a year

Anticipating the upcoming bank holiday, employees may be considering taking an extra day off to elongate the three day weekend.

30% of UK firms report ‘illegitimate absence’ as one of the top reasons for short term employee absence in manual workers, and 23% in non-manual workers.

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