What is the Bradford Factor ?

What is the Bradford Factor ?
The Bradford Factor is a systems used to calculate a score for each employee's absence is a year. The higher the score, the more disruption the employees absence is causing your company.


Bradford scores are a way of identifying individuals with serious absence and patterns of absence worthy of further investigation. It helps highlight causes for concern and often is one of the starting points in an attendance procedure.
Using the Bradford Factor helps to discourage excess absenteeism and allows managers to compare employee attendance between different departments, as well as across the company as a whole.
How it works ?
S x S x D = Bradford points score

S = the number of occasions of absence in the last 52 weeks

D = the total number of days’ absence in the last 52 week

Examples
Employee A
Has 9 sickdays in a year, 4 are single day absences and 5 are in a block.

S = 1(1) + 1(1) + 1(1) + 1(1) + 1(5) = 5

D = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 5 = 9

score = 5 x 5 x 9 = 225

Employee B
Has 15 sickdays in a year, 3 blocks of five days.

S = 1(5) + 1(5) + 1(5) = 3

D = 5 + 5 + 5 = 15

score = 3 x 3 x 15 = 135

The examples show that B has more sickdays than A, yet B's Bradford Score is lower than A's.
This is because multiple single day absences are considered more disruptive to a company, than fewer longer periods of absence.