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A new report suggests that for UK employers (due to a low level of mandatory sick pay) its often cheaper to pay the sick pay, replace the worker(s) & not bother with occupational health support intended to retain staff.
The report suggests employers want to retain staff who are sick, but what reality tells us is that they treat workers as a cost, especially when they're ill & mostly fail to invest in their health & wellbeing to get them back to work.
No surprise there
Everything is trending toward brutality, be it in the workplace or elsewhere.
@ChrisMayLA6 "have you tried... not being sick/depressed?"
21st Century Occ health.
#FBPE @ChrisMayLA6 The country as a whole doesn't want to invest in getting people back to work.
Look at NHS waiting times, and the people who can't work, or can't work effectively, whilst they're waiting.
(No, I don't think the answer is to prioritise patients who can be got back to work and make the rest wait even longer.)
@TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 absolutely. Keeping your workforce healthy is an absolute prerequisite to keeping the tax flowing. Healthy people work hard - sick people not so much.
@TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 the answer is to spend some damn money, there's a huge hole to make up.
@econads @ChrisMayLA6 But if it gets people back to work it will *save* money ...
@TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6
yeah sure, we're on the same side here :-) just grumbling generally.