Stress, depression and anxiety is the cause of 5.9% of cases of absence in the UK, according to ONS data. By gender, stress accounts for 7.4% of all sickness absence taken by women, and 3.8% for men. Cutting stress-related absence is cited by employers surveyed by XpertHR as a key motivator for their actions to tackle stress. But the survey suggests that their actions to reduce stress-related absence are having little actual impact.- The three main reasons for acting to reduce employee stress are: to promote employee wellbeing and health; to manage absence; and to comply with health and safety legislation.
- The most common measures taken by employers on stress-related absence are return-to-work interviews or phased returns to work following stress-related absences and occupational health referrals.
- Worryingly, only one-third of employers believe that their actions to manage or prevent stress have had a measurable impact on stress-related absence and or general absence. Public sector employers are less likely than those in the private sector to feel that their actions are driving down stress-related absence.
Subscribers to XpertHR benchmarking can drill down into the complete findings of this survey, and create their own bespoke reports.
This month's big HR benchmarking questions
The past month has seen the addition of a number of major HR benchmarking datasets to XpertHR Benchmarking, including the following: HR Roles & Responsibilities; Graduate Recruitment; Graduate Starting Salaries; and Employee Referral Schemes.
Here are just a few of the key HR benchmarking questions from these newly-added datasets (XpertHR Benchmarking subscription required):
HR Roles & Responsibilities
Employee Referral Schemes
HR data blog post round-up: February 2012
Here's our latest monthly pick of top blog posts on HR data issues from XpertHR's blogs and other blogs:
XpertHR's round-up of HR data for February 2012 is the latest instalment in an ongoing monthly series, highlighting latest HR data releases from XpertHR and other sources, alongside links to news stories and blog posts of direct or indirect relevance to issues around using HR data.
If there are any HR-related data measures you would like to see covered in future XpertHR data round-ups, or if there are any surveys or HR data blog posts that you would like to see highlighted, please do get in touch. You can submit comments via the box below, or contact me directly via Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.
XpertHR data round-up archive
Catch up with all the posts in XpertHR's data archive series!
Here's our latest monthly pick of top blog posts on HR data issues from XpertHR's blogs and other blogs:
- Maximising the effectiveness of HR data In the first of a series of articles for personneltoday.com on using data and metrics more effectively, Nick Kemsley of Henley Business School looks at why HR professionals need to become more "tact-tegic" in how they use data.
- In which country do workers get the most days off? The answer to this and a number of other key questions about time off from work, public holidays, sick pay and more are answered in this excellent videographic from The Economist.
- Can social media really get you a job? A very interesting post and infographic from the EconMatters website on how "social media are increasingly becoming the new job fair for people to network, get new job leads or to promote and showcase resumes" (at least in the US).
- Why using internal social media could leave HR with data 'as fixed as concrete.' Could using internal social media applications (or "work media") render data inaccessible for HR and other departments? In a fascinating post on the GigaOm blog, analyst and blogger Stowe Boyd looks at the opportunities "work media" offer employers and HR, and the risk that they could result in data becoming "as fixed as concrete."
- Just how much is your job costing you per year? What does the simple act of turning up to your day job, and keeping yourself fully fed and watered cost you per year? Or, alternatively, how much is your job likely to cost you over the course of your life? This is the subject of a fascinating infographic created by Guardian Jobs, and shared by a number of bloggers over recent weeks, including Louise Triance's UK Recruiter Blog. Among the sobering revelations here are the following: You are likely to spend (on average) eight years, seven months, 17 days and two hours working over the course of your entire life.
- CIPD dominates professional qualifications for UK HR professionals Four-fifths of UK HR professionals surveyed by XpertHR (80.2%) hold individual CIPD membership, rising to 85.3% of those at HR Director level. Two-fifths agree with the proposition that "CIPD qualifications are vital to an individual wishing to enter the HR profession." A further one in five strongly agrees.
XpertHR's round-up of HR data for February 2012 is the latest instalment in an ongoing monthly series, highlighting latest HR data releases from XpertHR and other sources, alongside links to news stories and blog posts of direct or indirect relevance to issues around using HR data.
If there are any HR-related data measures you would like to see covered in future XpertHR data round-ups, or if there are any surveys or HR data blog posts that you would like to see highlighted, please do get in touch. You can submit comments via the box below, or contact me directly via Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.
XpertHR data round-up archive
Catch up with all the posts in XpertHR's data archive series!
- HR data round-up January 2012: What is the ideal employee to HR ratio in 2012?
- HR data round-up, December 2011: Christmas working and minimum office temperatures
- HR data round-up November 2011: Why did you get into HR?
- HR data round-up October 2011: National minimum wage; HR data visualisation; & using HR data effectively
- HR data round-up September 2011: Benchmarking absence; social media ROI; & latest HR data blog posts
- HR data round-up July 2011: HR careers, absence & turnover
- XpertHR data round-up, June 2011: Company cars, commuting, benchmarking & labour disputes
- XpertHR data round-up, May 2011: HR benchmarking data, absence & hand-drawn charts
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