Employee Absenteeism is the absence of an employee from work. Its a major problem faced by almost all employers of today. Employees are absent from work and thus the work suffers. Absenteeism of employees from work leads to back logs, piling of work and thus work delay. There are various laws been enacted for safeguarding the interest of both Employers and Employees but they too have various constraints.
Absenteeism is of two types -
- Innocent absenteeism - Is one in which the employee is absent from work due to genuine cause or reason. It may be due to his illness or personal family problem or any other real reason
- Culpable Absenteeism - is one in which a person is absent from work without any genuine reason or cause. He may be pretending to be ill or just wanted a holiday and stay at home. The employers have got every right to enquire as to why an employee is absent from work. If an employee is absent because of illness he should be able to produce a doctor's letter as and when demanded.
The most unusual excuses given by the employees calling in sick included the employee's sobriety tool not allowing the car to start, the worker forgetting he had a job, his or her dog having a nervous breakdown and the employee's dead grandmother being exhumed for a police investigation. Reasons from the side of organisation
- Lack of satisfaction from present work
- Poor working conditions
- longer working hours
- Dominating Boss & Seniors
- Non Cooperating peers
- Higher expectation
- No growth prospects in present Company
- Excess Work Stress
Reasons from the side of employee
- bad health condition of employee or his family members like spouse, children and parents.
- family concern disputes and problems.
- on occasions of this family relatives.
- demise of close family members or relatives.
- appearing for examination if he is pursuing further education for career development or promotions.
- sometimes due to financial problems.
- going on vacation is visiting other places.
- exceeds number of late comings limit fixed by the organisation. (say for example, any organisations marks absent for an employee who comes late continuously for three times. For this reason most of employees gets absent if they were late to office for third time.)
- on the Day of sports events especially cricket.
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