‘Pulling a sickie’ is familiar territory for employees, but an inconvenience for employers. Figures worryingly show that £900 million is the economic cost of UK employees feigning sickness each year.
Adzuna.co.uk surveyed more than 3,500 employees to find out how many employees had ‘pulled a sickie’ in each UK region in 2017. Adzuna also sought to find out which industries had the most employees pulling a sickie last year.
Some of their findings include:
- Scotland had the highest number of employees (38%) ‘pulling a sickie’ in 2017, with the majority doing so to avoid a stressful situation at work
- North East had the lowest number of employees (15%) ‘throwing a sickie’, with most of them doing so because of childcare issues
- Overall, out of all the employees who took a sickie last year, 18% confessed to being caught by their employer
- Collectively, the UK loses an astonishing 38 million days each year to employees feigning sickness – equivalent to the same amount of working days needed to build 2 Channel tunnels or 40 hospitals
Please see the attached press release for more information into the research which includes a comment from Doug Monro, the Co-Founder of Adzuna.
