Businesses looking at benefits to prevent employee absence

The intermediary's research, which surveyed 500 HR decision-makers, found that absence rates caused problems for 23% of businesses. This was the case for businesses with 2-20 employees (16%), 21-249 employees (22%) and 250+ employees (36%). David Williams, head of group risk, Towergate Employee Benefits, said: "There is now a lot more additional preventative care within employee benefits. Preventative support works and employee benefits providers know that preventing illness is cheaper than treating illness." Towergate found that most employers were looking at prevention rather tha...