2023-05-31 04:30:23
Office notebook. Attending physicians and occupational physicians agree that absenteeism is doing well. Not because of the arrival of fine weather, but because of illness. Half of private sector employees have stopped at least once in 2022, reveals the annual Malakoff Humanis Barometer to be published in the coming days. This is a first since the mutualist began to question companies on occupational health in 2016.
At the end of May, another prevention professional, Axa, published a Datascope on the subject. After taking the pulse of 3 million employees, the result fell: 44% of them stopped at least once in 2022. Would half of France be sick?
The first affected are young people and executives, two categories of employees whose usually very low absenteeism rate increased sharply between 2019 and 2022, by more than 50% among those under 30 and by more than 40% among managers, according to Axa. Diagnosis also alarming at Malakoff Humanis: doctors would have prescribed a work stoppage to 58% of 18-34 year olds, and to 53% of managers in one year.
More short stops and a surge in multiple absences might be explained by the passage of Omicron, which caused many illnesses in the first quarter of 2022 and professional disengagement. “Absenteeism is all the stronger when employees are less engaged in their work”notes the Malakoff Humanis barometer, which crossed the indicators of work commitment with the rate of sick leave prescription.
An increasing average duration
Psychological conditions, still ahead of musculoskeletal disorders, are the leading cause of long stoppages, which are getting longer and longer. The average duration went from 97 to 111 days. Bayer France’s director of social affairs, Jean-François Véry, told Axa that a third of their long-term absences “are linked to psychological difficulties”. “We need to build some precise indicators to measure (…) in particular repeated short-term absenteeism. It is, in fact, often a precursor to longer work stoppages. »
According to Axa, the direct cost for companies of all these health problems amounts to 4.4% of the payroll in 2022, compared to 3.9% in 2021 in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic. “A financial burden that takes into account neither the loss of productivity nor the disorganization of the teams”specifies the Datascope.
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