Mental health and productivity at work: does what you do matter?
"Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures – absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity while attending work) – explicitly allowing these r...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19104788124919229609-Mental-health-and-productivity.htm |
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| author | Bubonya, Melisa Cobb-Clark, Deborah Wooden, Mark |
| author_facet | Bubonya, Melisa Cobb-Clark, Deborah Wooden, Mark |
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| description | "Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures – absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity while attending work) – explicitly allowing these relationships to be moderated by the nature of the job itself. We find that absence rates are approximately five percent higher among workers who report being in poor mental health. Moreover, job conditions are related to both presenteeism and absenteeism even after accounting for workers' self-reported mental health status. Job conditions are relatively more important in understanding diminished productivity at work if workers are in good rather than poor mental health. The effects of job complexity and stress on absenteeism do not depend on workers' mental health, while job security and control moderate the effect of mental illness on absence days." |
| format | TEXT |
| geographic | Australia |
| id | 19104788124919229609_c6a86e6cebf44eaabdc7d9c91af5e316 |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| is_hierarchy_title | Mental health and productivity at work: does what you do matter? |
| language | English |
| physical | 52 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publisher | Bonn IZA |
| spellingShingle | Bubonya, Melisa Cobb-Clark, Deborah Wooden, Mark absenteeism labour productivity mental health working conditions presenteeism Mental health and productivity at work: does what you do matter? |
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| title | Mental health and productivity at work: does what you do matter? |
| topic | absenteeism labour productivity mental health working conditions presenteeism |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19104788124919229609-Mental-health-and-productivity.htm |