Health and welfare has a relatively high share of work-related absenteeism (24.9 percent) compared to all employees together (19.6 percent).
Too high work pressure and physically demanding work are often cited reasons for sick leave due to work within the health and welfare sector. These reasons are also often mentioned in other sectors. In health and welfare, infection is also often mentioned as a reason for work-related absenteeism: 27 percent, compared to an average of 15 percent among all employees.
In childcare, more than half of the employees who were absent due to their work cite infection as the main cause. In hospitals and mental health care, too high work pressure is the most mentioned cause: 36 percent of employees with work-related absenteeism cite this as the main reason. In nursing, care and home care, physically demanding work is often pointed out, cited by 22 percent as the main reason for work-related absenteeism.
In 2024, the total sickness absenteeism in health and welfare - complaints due to work or not - was 7.3 percent, the highest of all sectors. The average among all employees is 5.2 percent. Higher absenteeism in certain sectors is related to characteristics of employees and work characteristics of these sectors. For example, older age, poor health, high work pressure, physically demanding work, limited possibilities for self-determination at work, and exposure to infection often coincide with higher absenteeism. Multiple of these characteristics occur relatively often in the health and welfare sector.
More about absenteeism in health and welfare can be read at absenteeism in health and welfare.
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