Absenteeism at work: a situation in the public sector just as degraded as in the private sector

As in the private sector, the health crisis had logically increased the number of sick leaves throughout the public service in 2020. According to statistics from Insee and the Ministry of Labor, the absenteeism rate had risen to its 2014 level. And with 4.8% of its agents absent at least once during a reference week for illness in 2020, the administration (State, hospitals and local authorities) posted a rate higher than 4.4 % recorded in the private sector.

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The official figures for 2021 will only be published in a few days, as an appendix to the finance bill for 2023. But despite the ebb in Covid-19 contaminations, the upward trend would persist, particularly in local communities.

This is at least what emerges from the observatory published at the end of June by the consulting firm WTW (Willis Towers Watson).

The study, carried out among 10,000 communities employing around 300,000 agents, notes

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