Presenteeism: at work--but out of it.

摘要: Employers are beginning to realize that they face a nearly invisible but significant drain on productivity: presenteeism, the problem of workers' being job but, because illness or other medical conditions, not fully functioning. By some estimates, phenomenon costs U.S. companies over 150 billion dollars year--much more than absenteeism does. Yet it's harder identify. You know when someone doesn't show up for work, you often can't tell when, how much, poor health hurts on-the-job performance. Many problems result in presenteeism relatively benign. Research this emerging area study focuses such chronic episodic ailments as seasonal allergies, asthma, headaches, depression, back pain, arthritis, and gastrointestinal disorders. The fact is, people don't feel good, simply perform at their best. Employees who suffer from depression may be fatigued irritable--and, therefore, less able work effectively with others. Those migraine headaches experience blurred vision sensitivity light, mention acute probably have hard time staring computer screen all day. A number making serious effort determine prevalence illnesses conditions undermine performance, calculate related drop productivity, find cost-effective ways combat loss. Indeed, researchers discovered presenteeism-related declines productivity sometimes can offset by small investments screening, treatment, education. So organizations it pays make targeted employees' care--by covering cost allergy medication, instance, therapy depression.