One-day absence in industry

Abstract

Much has been written about absence from work taken in spells of three days or more, little about spells of one or two days?possibly because they do not ordinarily count for National Insurance benefit Nevertheless, this short-term absence is a pressing problem common to all branches of industry. This paper presents part of a much larger study into one- and two-day industrial absence It considers only one-day absences and is further restricted to examining only one aspect of the data, namely whether there are grounds to suppose that an analogue to "accident proneness", viz "one-day absence proneness" exists.