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EBOM-2009 SSc4:Alternative Commuting Transportation

Zero employees did not commute due to an absence

We did the transportation survey to a huge building none of the persons responding the survey noted that they did not commute to the building due to absence, our reviewers noted that this is unlikely to have happened, do we need to apply the survey again to just ask one question!!!!! is there any other way to respond this Shall we just provide a narrative confirming that no absences occurred at least with the survey respondents, how would you explain this further

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Dan Ackerstein
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Ackerstein Sustainability, LLC
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Thu, 01/31/2013 - 15:04

Alicia - I think this is actually a reasonable clarification on the part of the reviewer; it does seem quite surprising that noone in a huge building would report having missed a day of work in a given week. That being said, assuming that there are no glaring inadequacies with your survey tool or methodology, the results you have are the results you have. Unless the reviewer identified inadequacies, or directed a specific course of action, I think your narrative acknowledging the unexpected result but noting that this was indeed the data received, is about all you can do. (One other idea, if you do indeed suspect a problem with the survey itself, might be to try to dig up some kind of national absenteeism rate and discount your findings by that rate.) Interesting problem - Please let us know how its resolved! Dan

Fri, 02/01/2013 - 03:02

I will ask each company to give me their absenteeism rates to be more accurate hope this works and will document with that, the survey does not reflect a correct answer for that question

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