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# Viewing the Absence Report

Learn how to keep an eye on sickness absence in your team: how much absence there is, who is off sick now, and whether there are patterns.

#### Where do you find it?
Go to HR → Reports → Absence Report.

#### Filtering
* **Period**: This Month, This Quarter (default), This Year, Last Quarter or Custom.
* **Team**

#### What do you see?
**At the top**
* **Total absence days**, compared to the same period last year.
* **Absence rate**: what share of working days people were off sick.
* **Avg days per employee**

**Open cases**: who is off sick now, since when, whether they're Fully absent or Partially recovered, and the next milestone. An overdue milestone is marked. Under **Long-term cases** you see absences lasting longer than 14 days. This only counts for companies in the Netherlands, since milestones only apply there.

**Case duration**: how many cases were Short (< 1 week), Medium (1-6 weeks) or Long (> 6 weeks).

**By Employee**: the 10 employees with the most absence days. A red "BF" label means a high Bradford Factor (see below).

**Team Breakdown**: for each team, the number of absence days per employee.

#### What is the Bradford Factor?
The Bradford Factor shows whether someone is often off sick for short periods. Many short absences are often harder on a team than one long one. It's calculated as: the number of absences × the number of absences × the total days of absence. 

Someone who was off sick 4 times for 1 day scores 64. Someone who was off once for 10 days scores 10. From 200, an employee gets a red label.

|| Note: a high score is a reason to have a conversation, not a judgement. There may be a good reason behind it.

#### Exporting
Click Export to Excel for a file with the data matching your filters.
How to keep track of an absence itself is explained in [Managing absence](https://help.heartsome.co/en/article/managing-absence-tftxoz/).