Labour Absenteeism Continues to Rise, Reaching 1.6 Million Absences per Day, Mostly Due to Medical Casualties
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A report by Randstad points out that absences from work amount to 7.2% of the hours agreed in the second quarter. Asturias, the Canary Islands and the Basque Country show the highest rates.
The rate reaches 7.2% of the agreed hours and medical casualties account for 1.27 million of the daily absences
Medical casualties account for 77.8% of absences: 1.27 million workers were out of work daily (5.6% of agreed hours)
In the second quarter of 2026, the advertising and market studies branch recorded an absenteeism of 4.5% of the agreed hours. It is 2.7 points less than the national average (7.2%), according to Randstad Research's absenteeism report, prepared with data from the INE's Quarterly Labour Cost Survey. Advertising is...
The absenteeism rate was 7.2%, 0.2 percentage points compared to the same period in the previous year.
In the second quarter of 2026, the Canary Islands recorded a 9% absenteeism rate, the same as Asturias and the highest rate in Spain as a whole, according to a report prepared by Randstad Research based on data from the Quarterly Labour Cost Survey of the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The Islands also headed absenteeism due to temporary disability (IT), with 7.8% of the hours agreed.
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