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Valuing reductions in on-the-job illness: ‘presenteeism’ from managerial and economic perspectives

✍ Scribed by Mark V. Pauly; Sean Nicholson; Daniel Polsky; Marc L. Berger; Claire Sharda

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
156 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-9230

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Abstract

This paper reports on a study of manager perceptions of the cost to employers of on‐the‐job employee illness, sometimes termed ‘presenteeism,’ for various types of jobs. Using methods developed previously, the authors analyzed data from a survey of more than 800 US managers to determine the characteristics of various jobs and the relationship of those characteristics to the manager's view of the cost to the firm of absenteeism and presenteeism. Jobs with characteristics that suggest unusually high cost (relative to wages) were similar in terms of their ‘absenteeism multipliers’ and their ‘presenteeism multipliers.’ Jobs with high values of team production, high requirements for timely output, and high difficulties of substitution for absent or impaired workers had significantly higher indicators of cost for both absenteeism and presenteeism, although substitution was somewhat less important for presenteeism. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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