People attending business training events may be interested to learn that sickness absence costs small businesses £1,500 each, a year, according to new figures.

The stats from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) show that while long-term sickness doesn’t affect SMEs that often when it does it can have a huge impact on the company.

The survey found that on the whole SMEs only experience 2.4 sick days per employee per year which is well below the national average of 7.7 days per employee per day.

However, in the past year sickness absence cost small businesses on average £1,500 while for nine per cent it cost more than £5,000. The FSB is now calling on the government to do more to help small businesses cover the costs of sickness.

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