Violence against women costs companies $727.8 million annually due to lost productivity. (Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States. 2003. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Atlanta, Ga.)
More than 7.9 million paid workdays are lost each year due to violence against women. (Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States. 2003. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Atlanta, Ga.)
37 percent of women personally affected by domestic violence report that the abuse has had an impact on their work performance in the form of tardiness, missed work, a lost job or missed career promotions. (EDK Associates for The Body Shop, The Many Faces of Domestic Violence and Its Impact on the Workplace, New York: EDK Associates, 1997)
According to an anonymous client survey report conducted at a Chicago factory by the University of Illinois at Chicago, the rate of employees asking for workplace counseling services for domestic abuse problems was 14 times what it had been prior to the training . According to the same study, when a sample group of 40 abused employees at the same factory began using the domestic abuse counseling services, their average absence rate was higher than the factory’s average absence rate. After using the counseling services, the abuse employees reduced their absenteeism rates to the norm. (Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations)
Source: The Photo News
Related: Educational Resources for Domestic Abuse
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