Absenteeism Statistics: What Illness-Related Absence Costs Business
Illness-related absence is one of the more measurable costs of poor workplace hygiene — and one of the more directly influenced by prevention investment. Figures below should be sourced from named business-research bodies and kept current.
Key figures
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Average annual sick days per employee — insert current figure from CIPD or BLS before publishing.
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Annual cost of absenteeism to employers — insert current figure from HBR, McKinsey or Accenture before publishing.
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Share of absenteeism attributable to preventable illness — insert current figure from IBI before publishing.
Per Section 12 sourcing rules, business-impact figures should be drawn from Harvard Business Review, McKinsey, Accenture, The Telegraph, the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), or CIPD — never mixed with health/epidemiological sources like CDC or WHO, which speak to a different kind of claim entirely. For the health side of illness spread, see how germs spread; for what reduces this cost, see the ROI of workplace disinfection.
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