People who suffer from it don't perform well, get sick more often and
experience higher absenteeism.
Not exact matches
It's been shown in multiple studies that workers who are content in their jobs have a
higher rate of productivity, a lower rate of
absenteeism or accidents, and are likely to
experience greater job satisfaction and feel loyalty toward the company instead of just showing up for a paycheck.
Disaggregated by race, gender, disability status and English language proficiency, the results show that some populations
experience significantly
higher rates of chronic
absenteeism.
Further, the research shows that chronic
absenteeism is persistent; in other words, schools that
experience chronic
absenteeism tended to show similarly
high rates of such year after year.
do not offer a
high quality, engaging and safe educational
experience because they are under resourced and suffer from challenges such as limited availability of effective instructional strategies and supports for learning,
high rates of staff turnover and teacher
absenteeism, and inadequate school facilities?
Once we control statistically for the quality of individual teachers by the use of teacher fixed effects, we find large returns to
experience for middle school teachers in the form both of
higher test scores and improvements in student behavior, with the clearest behavioral effects emerging for reductions in student
absenteeism.
A June 2014 report released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more
experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately
high rate of teacher
absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.»
Absenteeism appears to be
higher amongst those whose carer has low levels of school education and who has
experienced racial discrimination.
A graphic example is the
experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers who have
higher levels of burnout,
absenteeism, chronic illness related to stress and lower retention rates.