Employers are making more efforts to provide resources for employees needing long-term absences, resulting in better productivity and less cost to employers.

A new study from The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America measures how employers are utilizing certain programs and tactics to help employees during absences. The study creates an index to measure utilization of these tactics, which assigns employers a score based on a 10-point scale. 1,000 employers from companies with employees ranging from 50 to 50,000 were surveyed.

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