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Research: Why Employees Work While Sick—and How Leaders Can Stop It

Harvard Business Review

What leaders can do to prevent a culture of presenteeism and build a healthier, more resilient workforce.

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Presenteeism Only Tends To Emerge When Employees Fall Behind Expectations

The Horizons Tracker

The concept of presenteeism obviously took on a new light during a pandemic in which infecting our colleagues took on life-changing meaning. Presenteeism is widely associated with a range of workplace problems, including productivity loss, burnout, and impaired workability. A costly problem.

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How Our Work Environment Affects Us

The Horizons Tracker

Furthermore, the research investigated presenteeism, a phenomenon where employees work while dealing with health issues, and contrasted it with a scenario in which workers faced no health-related barriers to their work. The study determined that, on average, presenteeism led to a performance reduction of around 34%.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

My team spent a decade running experiments that measured brain activity while people worked to find out why some teams are productive and others engage in "presenteeism." Through my research, I have found that high trust organizations outperform low-trust ones on multiple outcome measures by a wide margin.

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Evaluating Individual Performance From Within A Team

The Horizons Tracker

The hypothesis being tested was that managers instinctively pay attention to presenteeism and use that to distinguish individual performance within each team. To explore the matter more, the researchers worked with a US manufacturing company that keeps detailed productivity data.

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How to work hard and smart in business management

Strategy Driven

The last two years have significantly changed many perceptions and attitudes around presenteeism and productivity with the pandemic. It’s the greatest challenge of our modern age: maintaining a healthy work-life balance and maximizing your productivity to help your business and career thrive. It’s a complete culture change.

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The sun never sets on the English Empire, nor does it set on yours.

CO2

Presenteeism. companies, the Chicago Daily Herald found that “‘presenteeism’–showing up for work but performing at subpar levels because of physical or emotional health reasons–accounted for about 63 percent of wasted worker productivity, and absenteeism explains the rest.”