New research from the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development and Simplyhealth, CIPD (2023) Health and wellbeing at work, has revealed a marked increase in sickness absence among UK workers. The figure comes in at 7.8 days per employee per year on average, making it the highest level for a decade and an increase of 2 whole days from the pre-pandemic figure of 5.8 days. Analysis was based on responses …