Factors influencing employee absenteeism in IT Companies at Trichy

Abstract

Employees are not present in work and so the work suffers. The researcher focuses to sort the motives for employee’s absenteeism in an organization. It is the key problem faced by more or less all the employers nowadays. Absenteeism of employees from job results in backlogs, pile of labour and therefore work delays. The objective of the paper is to identify the predominant factor influencing employee absenteeism and to measure the impact of factors influencing employee absenteeism on employee productivity. Descriptive research design is used for this reseacrh. Data was collected from 150 employees using Convenience sampling technique from the employees of IT companies at Trichy. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics to identify the predominant factor influencing employee absenteeism and multiple regression to measure the impact of factors influencing employee absenteeism on employee productivity. From the analysis, it was found that stress at the workplace is the predominant factor highly influencing employee absenteeism. It was also found that improper time management is highly influencing employee absenteeism factor on employee productivity.