New figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed that the number of days lost to sickness absence has fallen by 47 million in the past 20 years.
According to the research, the total number of days lost to sickness has fallen to 131 million, which marks an average of four days a year per worker. The percentage lost to sickness within the private sector was found to be at 1.8 per cent, compared with the figure of 2.9 per cent in the…
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