Do you recognize the following situation: An employee has increasing difficulty in keeping up his or her duties. You see this and fear that he or she will completely fail within 5 years, which subsequently happens. After a year of incapacity for work, the employee must look for other work because there is no longer any suitable work with his or her own employer.

The labour experts of Puls have daily conversations with employees who have been absent for some time. Puls also conducts interviews with employees who are not (yet) absentee. This is based on the idea of promoting the sustainable employability of employees.

What is a good time to engage in conversation with an employee?

A job that stays exactly the same until an employee's retirement age rarely exists. Often an employee manages to "change" with the new demands of the job. Sometimes this does not succeed. Changes also occur in the employee himself or herself, creating bottlenecks in the performance of his or her own work. This is a good time to talk to the employee. Waiting until the employee indicates that it is no longer possible is often a missed opportunity, because the employee is often already in a state of absenteeism. Examples of signals may include:

• the employee has difficulty performing certain activities in their own work;
• the employee asks for help from colleagues more than average;
• the employee has difficulty with (the changed) way of working;
• the employee is taking longer and longer to do the work;
• the employee makes more mistakes than usual;

What can a Occupational Assessor from Puls mean in this?

To prevent frequent absenteeism and to make your employee aware of his or her sustainable employability, it is important to pay timely attention to these signs.

The Occupational Assessor from Puls can support you in this!

The Occupational Assessor Together with the employer and the employee, investigate which bottlenecks there are in order to be able to perform their own work sustainably. Subsequently, the Occupational Assessor a solution and formulates concrete advice. Employer and employee receive a report and get to work with the advice of the Occupational Assessor. After a few months, the Occupational Assessor Contact us for an evaluation moment.

Prerequisites:

• The employee's participation is voluntary. This is different from a regular Occupational health assessment from the Gatekeeper Improvement Act;
• The starting point is to increase/improve the sustainable employability of the employee. Thus, the goal is not to assess the employee's performance or to terminate employment.

Learn more

Do you want to prevent (frequent) absenteeism and make your employees aware of their sustainable employability? Ask for more information about our Sustainable Employability Survey.