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wh1

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Registered: 2010-01-16

Posts: 1

average absences

I have to work out the average absences of an organisation in a year.  Can anyone tell me how to this please.  Do I add up the number of days taken off during the year and divide it by the actual number of occasions?

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: average absences

Hi wh1;

I am not following you, supposing that Fred was out 5 days and Joe missed 9 days and Jack was sick 3 days in your company. Wouldn't you just say the average absences were (5 + 9 + 3)/3 = 17 / 3? What is the problem with dividing the total # of days out by the number of sick people? Or by the total number of employees?

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