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The Parachute Blog

Evidence-based insights on workforce productivity, employee health, and the intelligence behind better health investment.

Workforce analyst reviewing an absence analytics dashboard showing a 9.4 per cent absence rate, 148.9 million working days lost, and 83 per cent of cost hidden in presenteeism — absence is a symptom, the causes sit upstream

Thought Leadership5 min read

Absence has never been more tracked. So why is it getting worse?

What organisations are measuring - and what they are missing. Why absence data alone cannot answer the questions that determine what action to take.

27 Apr 2026Read

Map of Yorkshire and the Humber overlaid as a green data network across a regional landscape — better data, stronger system coordination, prevention that intervenes before the cost

Thought Leadership9 min read

Yorkshire Has the Workforce. The Intelligence to Unlock It is Coming.

How shared workforce data is aiming to enable prevention, population health and pathway redesign across the region.

26 Apr 2026Read

Iceberg illustration showing the £6 million workforce health cost hidden below the surface of management reports — most of it isn't absence

Thought Leadership7 min read

The £6 million line that does not appear on any management report

The dominant cost of poor workforce health is invisible on every management report. Why measurement, not more programmes, is the foundation of human capital investment.

25 Apr 2026Read