Beyond SSP | Workplace sickness is spiking, should your policies change as a result?

In the UK, workers are currently taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade. Recent research from the CIPD found that staff took, on average, 7.8 sick days in the past year, up from 5.8 before the pandemic.

That’s a huge rise in the average volume of illness experienced by each individual in the workplace, and a huge concern to HR as the owners of wellbeing initiatives.