Bradford Factor Fact Sheet

Fact sheet: Beat absenteeism with the Bradford Factor and LeaveMaster
The average UK employee takes almost managers and HR departments identify staff
seven days off sick a year 1 . But every time who have been regularly feigning illness.
one of your staff members calls in sick, it
substantially impacts your bottom line. Not
only are you paying an employee to stay at For example, if an employee is off for 12
home, their absence leads to reduced levels straight days on genuine long-term sick
of productivity, efficiency and customer leave, but this is their only episode of
service. Deadlines may be missed, the absence in a year, their Bradford Factor will
morale of employees asked to take on extra only be 12 (1 x 1 x 12 = 12). But if another
work drops and you can incur additional
employee, who regularly claims to be ill on
costs, such as paying existing staff overtime
or bringing in temporary staff. Mondays and Fridays, has also taken 12
sick days over the year, but has called in
This adds up to an estimated cost to UK sick on 8 different occasions, their Bradford
employers of over £1000 per employee Factor will be 768 (8 x 8 x 12 = 768),
every year. 2 So improving your absence highlighting the need for remedial action.
rates by even a small percentage, could
result in substantial cost-savings for your
Implementing the Bradford Factor has been
company.
proven to dramatically reduce absenteeism
How could the Bradford Factor help? in organisations. As well as providing
managers with clear evidence of
More than one in ten sick days are believed absenteeism, it also acts as a highly-
to be taken by employees who aren’t effective deterrent. Knowing that it will give
actually ill, but have called in sick to extend
weekends and holidays or to enjoy sporting them a high Bradford Factor score, staff are
events 3 . discouraged from taking unwarranted sickies,
These one-off “sickies” are more costly to especially if the organisation has a “trigger”
businesses than long-term absences system in place whereby mandatory action
because cover usually can’t be arranged in is taken against employees whose score
time and key tasks are either neglected or
reaches a certain level.
the absentee’s colleagues have to do extra
work, damaging productivity and morale.
Why use LeaveMaster to calculate the
By giving a rating to each employee based Bradford Factor?
on the number and length of their absences
over a year, the Bradford Factor roots out Although the Bradford Factor is a powerful
and deters those employees who are tool for tackling absenteeism, calculating it
disrupting your business by taking too many for every employee across an organisation
“sickies.” is incredibly time-consuming and labour-
intensive. And if the wrong number of
How does the Bradford Factor work? episodes of absences is mistakenly put into
the equation, an employee’s Bradford Factor
The Bradford Factor formula is: E x E x D, score can be inadvertently doubled or tripled,
resulting in unwarranted disciplinary action
with E the number of episodes of absence
and a loss in confidence in the system.
and D the total number of days absent over
a rolling 52 week period. By penalizing LeaveMaster resolves this problem by
employees with many short leaves more automatically calculating the ongoing
than those with a small number of long-term Bradford Factor score for every employee in
absences, the Bradford Factor helps your organisation for you; even intuitively
taking into account non-working days such
as weekends and bank holidays. This
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2008 CBI/AXA Absence Survey means you can use the Bradford Factor to
Hewitt 2008 Healthcare Fundamentals Survey tackle absenteeism and make substantial
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2008 CBI/AXA Absence Survey
cost-savings, but without the burdensome
administration time or potential for error that
comes with using a manual or spreadsheet-
based calculation.
How does LeaveMaster help?
Whenever an employee calls in sick, a

manager or team member simply logs the
sick day on LeaveMaster. The sick day is
then added to the employee’s online records
and their Bradford Factor score is
automatically updated.
By being able to see at a glance how many

sick days each employee has had and their
latest Bradford Factor score, managers and
HR departments can monitor employee
absence in real-time and proactively warn
staff who are about to exceed their Bradford
Factor limit. They can also take action
against staff whose Bradford Factor score is
above the agreed level, and should the
issue go to a disciplinary hearing, they have
an up-to-date, indisputable record of the
employee’s absenteeism to refer to.
And since employees use LeaveMaster

themselves to quickly and easily book their
holidays, they can see their absences are
being accurately monitored via the
application and can keep track of their
Bradford Factor score, deterring them from
taking the “sickies” that are so damaging to
your business.
To find out more about how you can beat

absenteeism by using the Bradford Factor
on LeaveMaster, call us on 0800 33 456 30
and we’ll give you a comprehensive
demonstration. Or go to:
www.leavemaster.com

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Fact sheet: Beat absenteeism with the Bradford Factor and LeaveMaster

How does LeaveMaster help?

Whenever an employee calls in sick, a

By being able to see at a glance how many

And since employees use LeaveMaster

To find out more about how you can beat

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