Dougal Sutherland: Presenteeism, losing work for mental and physical health - Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Most people know about the impact mental and physical health can have on absenteeism (i.e., being off work due to ill-health) and the associated effect this has on productivity.

People are less familiar with presenteeism – that’s where you go to work with mental or physical health problems and don’t function to the full extent of your ability

• Hidden cost as difficult to spot

• 25% of the 8500 people we surveyed said they had experienced presenteeism in the past month

• Impact on their work is, on average, working 33% below best possible performance

• Cost of $2000 per month per employee (based on average salary estimates)

• More than $46billion cost per annum to NZ if extrapolate that across all orgs – note that this is an estimate and we need more research

• Lower productivity can be due to:

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