While employee absenteeism due to illness or other issues is an unavoidable fact of life, there are many measures that managers and employers can take to minimize employee absenteeism and to better manage it in general. Although employee absenteeism is an issue for any business that employs workers, many managers and employers fail to institute a systematic approach to absence management. One of the most important steps managers can take to address absence management is to proactively monitor and measure the rate of absence of departments and of individual workers. Managers can be measuring both group and individual absences so they can identify some trends and they can be developing resources to address the underlying causes. Without accurate data to diagnose the problem of excessive employee absence, it will prove difficult to manage and cure.