Who gains the most from improving working conditions? Health-related absenteeism and presenteeism due to stress at work.

ABSTRACT: Work stress-related productivity losses represent a substantial economic burden. In this study, we estimate the effects of social and task-related stressors and resources at work on health-related productivity losses caused by absenteeism and presenteeism. We also explore the interaction effects between job stressors, job resources and personal resources and estimate the costs of work stress. Work stress is defined as exposure to an unfavorable combination of high job stressors and low job resources. The study is based on a repeated survey assessing work productivity and workplace characteristics among Swiss employees. We use a representative cross-sectional data set and a longitudinal data set and apply both OLS and fixed effects models. We find that an increase in task-related and social

SUBMITTER: Brunner B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6803571 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature