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Absenteeism is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation.

Workplace

Frequent absence from the workplace may be indicative of poor morale or of sick building syndrome. However, many employers have implemented absence policies which make no distinction between absences for genuine illness and absence for inappropriate reasons. One of these policies is the calculation of the Bradford factor, which only takes the total number and frequency of absences into account, not the kind of absence.

As a result, many employees feel obliged to come to work while ill, and transmit communicable diseases to their co-workers. This leads to even greater absenteeism and reduced productivity among other workers who try to work while ill. Work forces often do excuse absenteeism caused by medical reasons if the worker supplies a doctor's note or other form of documentation. Sometimes, people choose not to show up for work and do not call in advance, which businesses may find to be unprofessional and inconsiderate. This is called a no call or no show. According to Nelson & Quick (2008) people who are dissatisfied with their jobs are absent more frequently. They went on to say that the type of dissatisfaction that most often leads employees to miss work is dissatisfaction with the work itself.

See also

• Presenteeism
• Saint Monday

External links

• Workplace absence in the UK
• http://www.dhs.net.au

References

From Wikiquote

Quotes regarding Absence

Sourced

• Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque (1881)

• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
  • François, duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665)

• Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
  • Tacitus, Histories (A.D. 104-109)

• Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
  • Alphonse de Lamartine, Premieres Meditations Poetiques (1820)

• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
  • Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (1938)

• It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
  • Colette, The Captain, Earthly Paradise (1966)

• Say, is not absence death to those who love?
  • Alexander Pope, Pastorals: Autumn

• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
  • Aphra Behn, The Rover, Part I, Act I, sc. ii (1677)

• The absent are like children; they are helpless to defend themselves.
  • Charles Reade, Foul Play (1869) ch. 44

• The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
  • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack July 1736

• To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.
  • Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ (c.1418) Book I, ch. 23

Attributed

• Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
  • Walter Savage Landor

• The absent are always in the wrong.
  • English proverb recorded in George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum (1651)

• The absent shall not be made heir.
  • Latin proverb

• They are good that are away.
  • Scottish proverb

• When you're not there, it doesn't matter.
  • Anonymous

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
  • Thomas Haynes Bayly

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From Wikisource

Absence may refer to:

• Absence, a poem by Matthew Arnold
• Absence, a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

From LoveToKnow 1911

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia), the fact of being "away," either in body or mind; "absence of mind" being a condition in which the mind is withdrawn from what is passing. The special occasion roll-call at Eton College is called "Absence," which the boys attend in their tall hats. A soldier must get permission or "leave of absence" before he can be away from his regiment. Seven years' absence with no sign of life either by letter or message is held presumptive evidence of death in the law courts.

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