August 2026
When absence goes up, where should HR look first?
Employee absence treated as a business KPI: absence rose in 2025 versus 2024, so the increase was broken down by department, region and employee group to show where HR should look first.
- Excel
- People Analytics
About this analysis
Full write-up coming soon. In the meantime, the LinkedIn article has the key findings.
Approach
- Dataset: synthetic absence records for two years.
- Compared 2025 against 2024, then segmented the change by department, region and employee group.
- Framed the result as a question HR can act on: where should we look first?
What I would do next
Placeholder. Describe follow-up questions, limitations, or which other KPIs you would combine with absence.