Five years of De Verzuimmakelaar: ‘We keep on growing!’

The reason why I founded De Verzuimmakelaar five years ago? Through the activities in my other company, 2de Spoor, I gained experience with various occupational health service providers. I developed a vision to unburden employers in a personal way and deliver a certain level of quality. I gradually got a clearer picture of this, and it motivated me to start doing it myself.

For small and large organizations
Many (SME) entrepreneurs think occupational health services are nonsense. For example, they believe that these providers only sell expensive subscriptions, or that they’re not there for you when you need them. Still, you can’t avoid it, because it’s legally required. So you’d better make sure you choose a good partner. We notice that our personal approach allows us to make a real difference, especially for smaller organizations, since they usually don’t have an HR department. Our smallest client has one employee, and the largest has more than 1,400. And you know what? They’re all equally important to us.

Experts: a joy to work with!
Our staff are truly committed to our clients—they are real experts in their field. They always go for the best solution and only want to deliver quality. To help our clients even better, they closely follow developments in the industry and are engaged in training and peer reviews. I think it’s fantastic that I’ve been able to gather such a team around me. Because that’s what it was all about five years ago: delivering quality service. You also see that more and more players in the market are aiming for this, especially the smaller occupational health service providers. And I can only applaud that.

12 misconceptions about occupational health services
Recently, there was a great article in the trade journal HR Rendement.

The author, among other things, questions whether you’re always best off with the largest and most well-known occupational health service providers. That really doesn’t have to be the case. The article closely matches my own vision of occupational health services. The growth we’ve experienced with De Verzuimmakelaar, I see as proof that I’m on the right track.

Flowfirm: a client from the very beginning
Five years ago, I started De Verzuimmakelaar with an acquaintance from my network, Michiel Werner of Flowfirm in Veghel. We entered into a partnership—a pilot. He was about to take over a company in Emmen. That company worked with a large national occupational health service provider. I got the opportunity at Flowfirm, where there was no HR officer employed. The goal was to eventually choose a single provider. After five years, he is still a client and has since made several acquisitions. Thanks to our support and guidance, the management assistant has broadened her role and taken on the sickness absence policy. Leonie van Iersel says about us: “De Verzuimmakelaar thinks along with our culture and transfers knowledge that we can use independently. The percentage of short-term absence has dropped significantly: it’s truly a fruitful collaboration.”

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