Absenteeism's a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation. Workplace Frequent absence from the workplace may be indicative of poor morale or of sick building syndrome. However, many employers have implemented absence policies which make no distinction between absences for genuine illness and absence for inappropriate reasons. One of these policies's the calculation of the Bradford factor, which only takes the total number and frequency of absences into account, not the kind of absen… (More on Absenteeism)