Sick Absence comes at a significant cost to organisations and the economy. It is a corporate governance imperative to manage and mitigate health risks.  Over several decades we have learned that the most effective way to do this is to balance the needs of the business with the wellbeing of employees.

Line managers who completed the WAM Masterclass (2020) acknowledged that it is possible to manage sick leave – and this level of confidence was imbued by insight into the Workplace Absence Management programme (WAM).

Welcome to this WAM Manager Toolkit zone where you will find helpful resources to address sick absence.

Watch the video and reference the WAM Handbook to find out how to mobilise this people-centred approach. You will discover how WAM draws on payroll data to identify sick leave patterns and trends, and how this intelligence, and the proactivity of managers, direct health professionals to reach out to employees to offer health coaching and counselling.

Familiarise yourself with the processes and protocols for Manager Referrals and know how to activate a WAM Manager Consultation session to deal with sensitive cases or confront perverse behaviour.

Essentially, line managers fulfil a vital role by enabling the soft touch of WAM to combat the hard knocks that unmanaged sick absence can have on the economy, the business, and employees.