

Injury, illness, stress, anxiety, or depression can diminish productivity, imposing increased costs on the employer and potentially impacting others in the workforce. Since the early 2000s studies have increasingly consider the reasons and costs for presenteeism which occurs when workers who are not fully productive still attend work. The reasons and costs for employee absence have been well studied for decades. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that depression cost employers an additional $44 billion annually. In 2015, the CDC Foundation estimated that physical injury or illness costs US employers $225.8 billion annually.

Absence management programs aim to maximize productivity by supporting an employee from initial absence through return-to-work and stay-at-work plans. ( July 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ībsence management, also known as leave management, is a combination of employer policies, procedures, or programs designed to handle employee leaves of absence and minimize the impact of those absences on the employer. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
