Employers have a huge opportunity to address the most manageable and costly absences, those that are incidental and unplanned like FMLA and Short-Term Disability. The first step is implementing a centralized system with leave rules to automate processes like FMLA requests and approvals. The next is putting the right set of metrics in place to measure and monitor workforce leave, identifying cost-drivers, best-practices, and ROI.

This whitepaper provides examples of metrics that can enable your organization to:

-Analyze trends to help formulate absence management strategies

-Monitor change to measure ROI of programs and practices

-Identify risks in real-time to proactively address them and minimize costs