Reylito A.H. Elbo
AMONG us in people management, it takes more than time, money, and effort to reduce the high rate of employee absenteeism in our organizations. Absenteeism causes a lot of trouble – low labor productivity and high overtime costs, to name a few. But it takes a lot of courage and tenacity to admit that we don’t know how to solve it, except to do excessive counseling and applying progressive discipline (reprimand-suspension-dismissal).