Office for National Statistics report on sickness days

Around 131 million working days were lost to sickness absence in 2011, a new report from the Office for National Statistics has shown. This was a fall of 26% since 1993 (when 178 million days were lost) despite an increase in total employment from around 25 million people to about 29 million people. The amount of time lost per worker was four and a half days in 2011 down from just over seven days in 1993.