Personal reasons top cause of employee absence

The study suggested that emotional health was now on a par with physical wellbeing while employees noted that increased work flexibility and generous benefit packages would prevent absences. According to Canada Life's survey, the majority of people (57%) said they had taken time off despite not being ill, with as many as one in ten (10%) doing so for emotional problems such as relationship break-ups. The number of employees who would consider not going into work because of a relationship issue is even higher at 23%. In this case women were slightly more likely to cite this as a rea...