Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being

The advances in Information and Communication (ICT) and the need to perform efficiently have bought both advantages and disadvantages to the well-being of employees. The situation is further aggravated by the Covid-19 outbreak and the recent company downsizing trend. This persistent high level of an...

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Main Authors: Ho, Theresa C. F., Ng, Shean-Min, Teo, Poh-Chuin, Ong, Choon Hee
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spelling my.utm.1006142023-04-17T07:17:28Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/100614/ Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being Ho, Theresa C. F. Ng, Shean-Min Teo, Poh-Chuin Ong, Choon Hee HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property The advances in Information and Communication (ICT) and the need to perform efficiently have bought both advantages and disadvantages to the well-being of employees. The situation is further aggravated by the Covid-19 outbreak and the recent company downsizing trend. This persistent high level of anxiety may cause employees to become physically and mentally exhausted, which leads to sickness presenteeism and negative effect on employees’ psychological wellbeing. Hence, the aim of this paper is to examine and establish a link between time pressure, constant connectivity, sickness presenteeism, and employees’ psychological wellbeing. Results show that time pressure is positively related to sickness presenteeism and sickness presenteeism is negatively related to employees’ psychological well-being. The result was then discussed and this research also proposed future studies to empirically examine the proposed relationship discussed in this paper. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2022 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/100614/1/HoCFTheresa2022_PresenteeismintheWorkplace.pdf Ho, Theresa C. F. and Ng, Shean-Min and Teo, Poh-Chuin and Ong, Choon Hee (2022) Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12 (6). 932 -943. ISSN 2222 -6990 http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i6/14041 DOI: 10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i6/14041
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topic HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property
spellingShingle HB615-715 Entrepreneurship. Risk and uncertainty. Property
Ho, Theresa C. F.
Ng, Shean-Min
Teo, Poh-Chuin
Ong, Choon Hee
Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being
description The advances in Information and Communication (ICT) and the need to perform efficiently have bought both advantages and disadvantages to the well-being of employees. The situation is further aggravated by the Covid-19 outbreak and the recent company downsizing trend. This persistent high level of anxiety may cause employees to become physically and mentally exhausted, which leads to sickness presenteeism and negative effect on employees’ psychological wellbeing. Hence, the aim of this paper is to examine and establish a link between time pressure, constant connectivity, sickness presenteeism, and employees’ psychological wellbeing. Results show that time pressure is positively related to sickness presenteeism and sickness presenteeism is negatively related to employees’ psychological well-being. The result was then discussed and this research also proposed future studies to empirically examine the proposed relationship discussed in this paper.
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author Ho, Theresa C. F.
Ng, Shean-Min
Teo, Poh-Chuin
Ong, Choon Hee
author_facet Ho, Theresa C. F.
Ng, Shean-Min
Teo, Poh-Chuin
Ong, Choon Hee
author_sort Ho, Theresa C. F.
title Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being
title_short Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being
title_full Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being
title_fullStr Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being
title_full_unstemmed Presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being
title_sort presenteeism in the workplace and the effect on employees’ well-being
publisher Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
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url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/100614/1/HoCFTheresa2022_PresenteeismintheWorkplace.pdf
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