Short-term sickness and longterm absences data 2025Short-term sickness and longterm absences data 2025
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Request 828619378
This request relates to employee sickness absence data included in the States of Jersey 2025 Annual Report and Accounts, which reports a total of 85,965 days lost in 2025, up from 75,317 days lost in 2024 (9.7 average sick days per employee compared to 8.8 the year before).
Is it possible to have this data broken down into short-term sick and long-term absences? And can the data also be further broken down into average sick days per employee on a departmental level? Thank you.
Response
Long term sickness absence is defined as a period of continuous absence of more than 20
working days.
Please note that the below figures have been prepared using absence data from 1st January to 31st December 2025 only allocated on e-rostering and MyView.
Sickness Instance
| Days
|
Short Term
| 49,776.25
|
Long Term
| 36,187.89
|
Total
| 85,964.14
|
Government of Jersey
| Average Days Sick Per Employee
|
Cabinet Office
| 5.0
|
Children, Young People, Education & Skills
| 7.5
|
Department for the Economy
| 4.9
|
Department of External Relations
| 0.5
|
Digital Services
| 4.5
|
Employment, Social Security and Housing
| 12.9
|
Health and Care Jersey
| 13.7
|
Infrastructure and Environment
| 11.6
|
Justice and Home Affairs
| 8.0
|
Non-Ministerial Departments
| 2.6
|
People Services
| 8.8
|
Treasury and Exchequer
| 5.7
|
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