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:

    ... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    We want in every man a long logic; we cannot pardon the absence of it, but it must not be spoken. Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Your absence has gone through me
    Like thread through a needle.
    William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)