TY - JOUR AU - Cooper, Cary L. AB - Occupational Medicine 2014;64:146–147 doi:10.1093/occmed/kqu025 Editorial The subject of workplace well-being has been open to of stress, anxiety and depression. In a report by the a vast array of interpretation over the years, expl oring Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the leading factors that relate to ill-health, economic success and voice for businesses in the UK, these are reported as organizational and individual perform ance [1]. There is mental illness [8] and have been largely attributed to the a well-established link between an employee’s psycho- general working population shifting to a more knowl- logical well-being and organizational performance [2,3]. edge-based labour force and away from the manual In the UK, the subject of well-being has become ever labour jobs of earlier years. The later introduction of more topical as organ izations, particularly among the presenteeism [9,10] clearly articulated that the issues public sector, look to respond to increasing economic of stress in the workplace may not be confined to those pressures. The demands of the comprehensive spending employees who were absent due to sickness, argu- review, a government response to austerity in the UK, ing the case for being present and sick, among other have resulted in sweeping public sector TI - Leaveism at work JO - Occupational Medicine DO - 10.1093/occmed/kqu025 DA - 2014-04-29 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/leaveism-at-work-cvK2QjqCD8 SP - 146 EP - 147 VL - 64 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -