 Leaveism

Leaveism (leavism) is a term first coined in 2013 by Dr Ian Hesketh, a researcher at University of Manchester - in the UK, to describe the phenomena of employees using flexitime, annual leave, rest days and other leave entitlement schemes to have time off when they are in fact too unwell to go to work.He later extended this to include occasions whereby employees took work home and/or on holiday that they could not complete in paid working hours.