{"id":609,"date":"2007-01-26T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/productivity-from-presenteeism\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T16:12:52","slug":"productivity-from-presenteeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/productivity-from-presenteeism\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity From Presenteeism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A timely article from CNNMoney.com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/rssclick\/2007\/01\/26\/news\/economy\/bc.life.work.reut\/index.htm?section=money_news_economy\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Presenteeism&#8217; infects businesses<\/a>. Timely in that some super bug has made it&#8217;s way through Select Metrix which has knocked yours truly down this week. For some background on this phenomenon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;presenteeism,&#8221; or going to work when sick, is a persistent problem at more than half of U.S. workplaces and costs U.S. business a whopping <strong>$180 billion a year<\/strong>, research shows. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think of it as the opposite of absenteeism.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s cut to the chase on the whole issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As often as two-thirds of the time, sick people go to work because they feel they have too much work to do, according to the CCH study. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And later:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With <em>corporate downsizings of the past creating a leaner workforce<\/em>, employees often feel they have to show up for work, whether it&#8217;s out of guilt over staying home or concerns over job security,&#8221; Gorovsky said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The incredible increase in productivity does have some downside (though presenteeism seems fairly minor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A timely article from CNNMoney.com &#8211; &#8216;Presenteeism&#8217; infects businesses. Timely in that some super bug has made it&#8217;s way through Select Metrix which has knocked yours truly down this week. For some background on this phenomenon: &#8220;presenteeism,&#8221; or going to work when sick, is a persistent problem at more than half of U.S. workplaces and costs U.S. business a whopping $180 billion a year, research shows. Think of it as the opposite of absenteeism. Let&#8217;s cut to the chase on the whole issue: As often as two-thirds of the time, sick people go to work because they feel they have too much work to do, according to the CCH study.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/productivity-from-presenteeism\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","category-worklife-balance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-9P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":472,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/presenteeism\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":0},"title":"Presenteeism?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sick? Your Boss Wants You to Stay Home, Survey Says. Did we really need a survey for this? I have never encountered the word presenteeism: 56 percent of employers now report that \"presenteeism,\" when sick employees show up for work, is a problem for them.Just 39 percent said that in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Team Management","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/team-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":565,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/presenteeism-and-flexible-hours\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":1},"title":"Presenteeism and Flexible Hours","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I had never heard of \"presenteeism\" up until a couple of months ago as I mentioned in this post. Now I encountered this SM&M article - Working While Sick. 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The article discusses how we here in the US are opting to move our vacations from the 2 week long once a year vacations to more 3-4 day weekend stints.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trends","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/trends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":972,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/ferret-out-the-real-salesperson\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":4},"title":"Ferret Out The Real Salesperson","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"June 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I spoke to a sales candidate this week who took a couple days to get back to me after completing a phone interview last week. Her comments were almost unbelievable. 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