Notes on sick leave, absence and the working day
Entries on how organisations arrange cover, record absence and talk about it. 5 entries
Almost nobody says what a policy expects them to say. The formal instruction is usually some version of notify your manager before the start of your shift and state that you are unfit to attend.
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Presenteeism is the word for being at work while unfit to do it, and it is the mirror image of the problem most absence policies were written to solve.
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Absence recording looks like clerical work and behaves like policy.
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In salaried office work, a single absence is usually a delay.
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Working from home removes the most reliable signal a workplace ever had about illness: the empty chair.
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