'Leaveism' and 'presenteeism' continue even when employers are more flexible – here's how to be happier at work
- Written by Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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pathdoc/ShutterstockWay back in February 2020, before most of us really knew anything about COVID, we wrote an article for The Conversation about “leaveism” and its impact on flexible working. Barely a month later, the world was bracing for a pandemic that would inadvertently create the largest (forced) working experiment of all time.
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