Way back in February 2020, before most of us really knew anything about COVID, we wrote an article for The Conversation about "leaveism" and its impact on flexible working. Barely a month later, the ...

Employees who are unwell only engage in presenteeism when they have not met their daily work goals, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin. The study, published in the Journal of ...

Why do employees with acute, chronic or episodic illness work rather than stay home? Gary Johns, a management professor in Concordia’s John Molson School of Business, has been conducting research on ...

A new paper questions the validity of available tools for measuring revenue loss from "presenteeism," which has become a buzzword in occupational health studies. Presenteeism – defined as “reduced ...

Background: Presenteeism is highly prevalent and costly to employers. It is defined as being present at work, but limited in some aspect of job performance by a health problem. Workplace health ...

Presenteeism is counterintuitive to worker productivity and engagement, affecting a company’s bottom line. When employees fail to prioritize their health by giving themselves time to recover, they are ...

In a recent article published in the Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Journal, researchers conducted an observational cohort study among all healthcare workers (HCWs) of the Veterans Affairs ...

In a work obsessed culture, there's a seemingly endless supply of threats to your wellbeing; one such threat commanding headlines recently is presenteeism. So what is presenteeism? According to the ...

The man who coined the term “presenteeism” has railed against major companies like Amazon renewed push to force workers back into the office five days a week. Several companies have scrapped remote ...

If the pandemic has taught us anything about work, it's that we don't need to be pulling long hours in an office to be productive. So, why is presenteeism still so important? As we head into 2022, ...