You may have read about the "Friday Feeling" trend in the papers this week.
It refers to the rising instances of people skipping work on a Friday, and is reported to be costing some organisations over £50m per year.
In this free tips list, Simply Personnel HR software offers you some helpful hints in tackling this trend within your organisation…
1. Make your office an environment that employees want to come into– even on a Friday.
You can do this very simply by making sure you have plenty of natural light in your environment (natural light is even thought to combat depression in the workplace) – adding plants and hanging paintings can also help. In addition to these basic steps you also need to make sure you are providing the best possible facilities for your employees including drinks and food making facilities.
If your employees are working in more pleasant surroundings it helps them build positive psychological associations with coming into work, regardless of what day it is.
You can do this very simply by making sure you have plenty of natural light in your environment (natural light is even thought to combat depression in the workplace) – adding plants and hanging paintings can also help. In addition to these basic steps you also need to make sure you are providing the best possible facilities for your employees including drinks and food making facilities.
If your employees are working in more pleasant surroundings it helps them build positive psychological associations with coming into work, regardless of what day it is.
On the surface this may seem like unnecessary expense but there is no easier way of tracking employees and their contribution to the organisation of the whole.
Amongst many other features this human resources software will enable you to record and analyse Holidays, absences, lates, un-authorised sickness.
Furthermore, Simply Personnel HR software automatically measures the disruption to your business using the Bradford Factor Formula. There is no substitute to having these indisputable facts at hand when coaching and developing employees or assessing the annual budget of your organisation. The first step to encouraging employees to turn up on a Friday is to make it known you are willing to acknowledge and assess the problem at hand.
Book a Demonstration to find out how Simply Personnel Software can help you reduce absences and save you money.
If you allow people a certain number of days of sickness without any action being taken, you will find that they will take that time off and then return to work without any consequences. Have some kind of system where on return they must log their absence details with management, and make sure they also have to call in every day that they are absent to confirm and update their current status.
The longer they have to wait before answering to management about their absence, the longer the absence is likely to last.
via an anonymous employee survey what issues your workplace could improve on. There may be issues that are causing absence that you are not aware of. Or certain aspects to the working environment that are decreasing morale to the point that your employees don’t have a conscience about taking sick days.
Distribute the survey and ask for honesty, explain that the environment can only improve with their honest opinions about what changes need to be made.