Absence

Absence

Absenteeism is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation. Traditionally, absenteeism has been viewed as an indicator of poor individual performance, as well as a breach of an implicit contract between employee and employer; it was seen as a management problem, and framed in economic or quasi-economic terms. More recent scholarship seeks to understand absenteeism as an indicator of psychological, medical, or social adjustment to work.

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Famous quotes containing the word absence:

    He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    In this absence of nine years I find a great improvement in the city of New York.... Some say it has improved because I have been away. Others, and I agree with them, say it has improved because I have come back.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
    Brian Appleyard (b. 1951)