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Showing up sick so everyone else can catch what you have, plus your guilt.
means The habit of coming to work despite being sick or burned out, getting little done while quietly spreading illness or exhaustion around the office.
from Coined in the 1990s as the deliberate mirror image of 'absenteeism' — swapping 'absent' for 'present' to name a problem employers hadn't noticed: people who are physically at their desks but mentally or physically unwell, costing productivity in a way that's harder to measure than an empty chair.
- costs more than
- absenteeism does, by most workplace studies
- peak industry
- healthcare workers, ironically, show up sickest
- remote twist
- now means working feverishly from bed instead
- productivity myth
- being there is not the same as working