Presenteeism (free White Paper available)

Celeste Blackburn SPHR

We've just posted the newest White Paper, "From Swine Flu to Bad Attitudes: How to Fight Employee Presenteeism." This one discusses the different aspects of presenteeism -- employees who can't/don't give their best but still show up to work anyway.

Of course, I couldn't write the white paper on this topic and not include a discussion of swine flu. Are you finding that employees are coming in even when they have symptoms and could be sick (and therefore potentially exposing their coworkers to the virus) or do they seem to be using the threat of swine flu (and the panic that seems to be developing around the topic) as a reason to call out sick? Do you find employees talking about swine flu? What are they saying?

Celeste

You can download the White Paper here: [URL="http://www.hrhero.com/whitepapers/"]www.hrhero.com/whitepapers/[/URL]

Paul in Cannon Beach

Timely.. I am drafting an e-mail to our supervisors about how to deal with staff coming to work who "don't feel well" but dont think they are sick.

owenlady

We developed a P&P specifically to deal with not only swine flu but anything similar in the future whereby we encourage employees with flu-like symptons to stay home and we also may send them home. In either instance, we don't count it as an occurence. To further encourage staying at home for those who are ill but may come to work anyway because they've exhausted their PTO time, we allow them to borrow up to 40 hours/1 week.