Nearly one in five (17%) small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) suffered significant disruption from staff illness and absence in the past year, according to findings from Metlife.
The average cost to businesses of this lack of employee presence amounted to 13% of payroll, the research found. The survey of companies employing up to 250 staff showed that, on average, of fir...
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