Causas y efectos del ausentismo laboral en las organizaciones

Abstract

The following article aims to identify the causes and effects of absenteeism in organizations. To develop this research, the descriptive method was used, since the causes and effects of work absenteeism were only identified in the organizations identified in previous works, both from theoretical and practical perspectives, that is, the findings of applied research on the subject and a description will be made of these. The most common diseases were found to be: Cardiovascular diseases, sleep apnea-hypopnea, work stress, depressive disorders, covid -19, work fatigue, visual diseases, multi-skeletal disorders, psychosocial risk diseases, for which workers are absent from work, the most frequent work accidents were: falls, contusions, visuals, hand injuries and the most common effects generated in organizations are: Low productivity and competitiveness, work overload, high training costs. A search was made in the following databases ScienceDirect, Scopus, selecting 30 articles that deal with the topic.