Health management specialist Let's GO! is warning South Yorkshire firms about a new form of absenteeism which could be costing UK businesses £15.1 billion a year – but doesn't involve anyone being off work.
Barnsley Business and Innovation Centre-based Let's GO! says research by the Sainsbury's Centre for Mental Health suggests the condition, dubbed "presenteeism," costs companies one and a half times as much as absenteeism.
James Marvin, from Let's
GO! -
www.letsgohealthandwellbeing.co.uk - says presenteeism is more common among higher paid staff and involves being at work in body, but not in mind.
What do you think? Post your comment below.Mr Marvin says: "The physiological and psychological state of a person will determine how well they work. If they are not functioning optimally through things like arthritis, gastrointestinal disorders, depression, lack of energy or clear focus their work may be affected by working much slower than normal and by making a lot of unwanted mistakes.
"It is crucial to enhance an individual's health and wellbeing to complement other training needs they may have. It may be true to say that until the health, fitness and wellbeing of an individual is addressed, any other training needs that focus on productivity may not be applicable, as the route of any lack of efficiency, demotivation or absence may be established from a much more personal source."
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