Consider a construction worker who hasn’t slept more than four hours a night for the past week, a software engineer who is battling a persistent cold but keeps working from their home office, and a schoolteacher who worries about their students so shows up each day despite feeling emotionally burned out.
What do they have in common? Presenteeism, otherwise known as the act of working while unwell – physically, emotionally, or mentally.
To be perfectly forthright, presenteeism – like burnout – is
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