Attendance Strategies
/Attendance Strategies
Do your current attendance policies and practices promote stability, or contribute to instability?
In this excerpt, two administrators talks about their uncommon approaches to common problems, and how these approaches promote attendance and contribute to stability.
Lauren Salvietti, Administrator at Quahog-on-the-Common, West Brookfield, MA, realized that under her attendance policy, she was looking too many good staff people facing stresses in their personal lives. She reoriented her policy to work with people as they faced stresses. She not only reduced terminations due to attendance, but she also reduced her unschedule absences.
David Farrell, NHA, talks about the benefits to employees and employers of staffing to steady hours, and the negative consequences of staffing to census. He makes the business case for staffing to regular consistent hours rather than dropping hours if the census fails.