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DMEC AbsenceExemplar® Benchmarking
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Participate in the DMEC Absence Plan Design and Practice Benchmarking Survey
Help us shape the future of employee leave benefits! By participating in our Plan Design and Practice Benchmarking Survey, you’ll contribute valuable insights into how employers design their leave plans and policies. Your input will help create comprehensive benchmarking data that can benefit organizations like yours.
Why Participate?
- Influence Industry Standards: Your responses will help set benchmarks that guide best practices in leave plan and policy design.
- Support Employee Well-being: Contribute to research that aims to improve employee satisfaction and productivity through better leave benefits.
How It Works:
- Confidential: Your responses are confidential and will be used only for benchmarking purposes.
- Immediate Benefits for DMEC Members: Within two weeks of completing the survey, DMEC Members receive access to the AbsenceExemplar (Limited) Dashboard, providing valuable benchmarking data. Gain insights as to how your organization’s leave policies compare to others in your industry.
- Access to Findings: Members and non-members alike will receive a complimentary copy of the finished research report when the survey closes in late 2026.
Get Started Now!
- Take the Survey and make a difference in the world of employee leave benefits.
Previous participants:
Check for an email from DMEC with your unique survey link. You can access your previous data and focus on contributing updates.
To request your unique link, contact info@dmec.org.
Why it Matters
Get details on how you can identify (and fill gaps) in disability and absence management from Deborah LaBonar, PhD, DMEC director of benchmarking and research. In addition to providing context for why benchmarking tools created by and for disability and absence management professionals are valuable, you’ll get details on how measuring something against a standard helps employers of all sizes and industries, and ways you can use different comparators for different business units within your organization!
Access dashboards and reports
DMEC AbsenceExemplar® Dashboard (Limited)
DMEC AbsenceExemplar® Dashboard (Full)
Absence Plan Design and Practices Benchmarking
DMEC offers two interactive, self-service benchmarking studies to support your absence plan design and practices needs. Both dashboards feature data from the DMEC Absence Plan Design and Practices Benchmarking Survey — which includes responses from over 1,100 companies. The survey is open, and we continue to collect new responses from organizations across a range of industries, sizes, and regions.
Survey categories include questions around plans and benefits associated with:
- Short-Term Disability (STD)
- Long-Term Disability (LTD)
- Workers’ Compensation
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Paid Parental Leave and Family Care Leave
- Time Off
- Attendance Policies
