LOW PRODUCTIVITY and high absenteeism among workers are a major concern for private sector leaders.
In fact, with local workplace absences higher than those being recorded in member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, key players in the local sector have said the problem had to be tackled at management level.
This assessment came from chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association (BPSA) Alex McDonald, and chief executive officer Anne Reid, who were speaking after a BPSA think tank meeting at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre yesterday.
Reid admitted that players in the private sector recognised that Barbados, in comparison to other Caribbean countries, tended “to trend very high in terms of the kind of absenteeism figures for those persons who track and who have businesses outside of the Caribbean”.
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