Risk areas, and one connected view across them.

In this area, we are referring to the productivity of the labour force and what causes and contributes to an absence but also presenteeism. Whilst absence tends to be measured by most larger employers, the national statistics relating to absence are conflicting and flawed. The Office for National Statistics data, produced by the Labour Force Survey, is circa half of the number of days lost to that of the CIPD absence data sponsored by Simply Health. The issues with absence are multiple and stem mostly due to the issue of accurate reporting, by the employee, supervised by the manager, the reason for the absence, the return-to-work date and more. Even employers who have purchased the appropriate software have issues. Therefore, it is not surprising that the recording of productivity losses whilst people are at work is even more complex. Many reports claim a cost to the UK from presenteeism but the basis for the predictive analytics is more limited than absence as few employers record "visible" reasons for productivity losses and even less aim to assess the cost from those "invisible" productivity losses. ORIGIN understand the range of issues and offer support services to organisations to improve the quality of data for both absence and presenteeism. This includes tools to measure the loss in a more detailed manner specific to any organisations.