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The latest sickness absence figures have been released highlighting yet again the clear difference between private and public sector organisations.
 
In the private sector, the average number of sickness days (per employee, per year) was 7.2, whereas the public sector statistics revealed an annual average of 9.8 days per employee.  Recent research has also highlighted that over half of UK companies do not even measure sickness absence levels despite this being a key reason for reducing business performance.