{
  "title": "In Sion, is working while ill a sign of reliability?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/a-sion-venir-travailler-malade-est-il-un-signal-de-fiabilite-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-05-03",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Low absenteeism is not enough to establish that a team is doing well. It can also conceal how difficult it is to take time off when health requires it.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Psychosocial Risks",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Gunnar Aronsson, Klas Gustafsson and Margareta Dallner (2000, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health) studied working despite feeling that one's health warranted sick leave."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism behind constrained attendance",
      "point": "Gary Johns (2010, Journal of Organizational Behavior) reviews research on presenteeism and distinguishes attendance behaviour from its potential consequences for productivity."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that any attendance while experiencing a health problem is necessarily harmful and should be prevented."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What conventional indicators do not show",
      "point": "The Swedish survey relies on self-reports and cannot, on its own, establish causality or justify transferring its findings to Sion."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "In Sion, a hydropower maintenance team, a healthcare service, a wine-growing business or an Alpine tourism operator can test the same question: what happens to the work when someone needs to take sick leave? Over four weeks, record every need for cover arising from an unplanned absence, without diagnoses or identities in the log, then check whether cover, postponement or a reduction in activity was explicitly agreed before the affected shift began."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Dallner",
      "year": "2000",
      "source": "Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Johns",
      "year": "2010",
      "source": "Journal of Organizational Behavior"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 404,
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    "fr": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/a-sion-venir-travailler-malade-est-il-un-signal-de-fiabilite",
    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/a-sion-venir-travailler-malade-est-il-un-signal-de-fiabilite-en",
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/a-sion-venir-travailler-malade-est-il-un-signal-de-fiabilite-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-risques-psychosociaux-sion",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}