Hi,
Has anybody had experience implementing the Bradford factor?
thanks
Andrew
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Hi Andrew
We used the Bradford factor at a previous company I worked for. I found it to be a useful way of measuring absence, however the downside was that some employees ended up with a lower score if they tried to come back to work too soon then ended up having another day off, as that counted as 2 instances, rather than 1. This meant that an employee who just stayed at home for 3 days for example, would get a better score than someone who had 1 day off, came back to work as they didn't want to let the team down, but then felt to ill and needed another day off.
I would say it depends on the current absence levels and the type of work you do if this would work for your organisation.
Hi Andrew,
We are beginning to use the BF as a trigger for one of the larger departments in our organisation where we have seen, in more recent times, an increase in absences, where we need to perhaps demonstrate a different approach and enable the team leaders to have more guidance on the triggers to raise concerns.
If I am honest, it is not something that I am overly keen on however if it enables us to demonstrate a fair approach for the triggers at raising more concerns then I am fine for this to be used, provided that it is only a trigger and not a definitive resolution for higher absence.
Have you started to use this yet?
Clare
Hi Andrew
Yes I have introduced this within organisations to reduce sickness absence and also used this as part of a redundancy selection criteria to calculate the impact of absence.
Basically it requires a sound rationale in terms of business case for introducing this, a good absence policy and guidelines for managers around how this links with the capability process and really crucially really good communication and explaining in simple terms.
This article is a bit outdated but some useful insights around how to implement within an organisation
http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/sickness-absence-how-i-made-a-diff...
I do hope this helps.
Sarah