Airport officials insist that absenteeism rates three times higher than usual have not compromised security, although waiting times for screening have increased.

Our absenteeism rates have decreased as well.

He said that pilot studies showed employee-owned mutuals led to lower absenteeism rates, greater productivity and more efficiently run services.

Objective measures have also been used and include blood pressure rate, muscle tension, and absenteeism rates.

Somebody in the organisation should have decent figures on the cost of absenteeism.

Business groups have warned that the cost of absenteeism to the economy because of this week's snowfalls could reach 2 billion.

But, it seems, fewer than half of employers monitor the incidence, cause or cost of absenteeism.

So you could work out the cost of absenteeism - extra staff having to be hired, loss of productivity and so on - and find an economic incentive to reduce it.