About

Fifty notes on attendance and absence, written for small businesses.

Who this is for

Ten to fifty people. No HR function. One person maintaining the record alongside another job, usually the owner or an office manager.

If you have an HR department, much of this will be familiar. If you are doing the rota at nine at night, it was written for you.

How the notes are written

Answers, not principles. Where a note says to do something, it says what to write down and who does it.

Checks you can run in an hour, from records you already have.

The uncomfortable findings included. A business that cannot survive one person being ill is fragile rather than efficient. A correction rate of zero usually means correction is impossible. Very low recorded sickness can mean people cannot afford to stay home.

Limits stated plainly. One note is entirely about questions these records cannot answer.

What is deliberately absent

Absence scoring formulas appear only in the note explaining why they are risky.

Monitoring features appear only in the notes about switching them off.

Requests to make either of those work better are declined in the same terms: a better version of the thing is still the thing.

No benchmarks

No absence percentages from elsewhere are quoted. They vary by sector, workforce age and whether people can afford to stay home. Compare against your own previous year, which is the comparison you can act on.

About this domain

This address previously belonged to a teacher's personal resource site from the early 2000s.

None of that material is here and none of it should be. Beyond the rights questions, the site contained identifiable photographs of children taken in a classroom around 2000. Those children are adults now. They never agreed to their childhood photographs being published, and any permission given at the time was given by their parents, to their teacher, for her site — it does not transfer with a domain.

Every previous address returns a clear "gone" response.