In Argentina, presenteeism is a reward received by the worker who does not record unjustified absences.
Presenteeism is a term whose meaning varies depending on the context and geographic region. In Argentina , the term is used in the workplace to name the award received by the worker who does not have unjustified absences and, therefore, is present every day at his or her workplace .
Presenteeism, in this sense, translates into a financial reward for those who, throughout the entire month, have not missed work without cause. On the other hand, the worker who was absent from work on some occasion loses presenteeism and, therefore, does not receive the money in question.
For example: "The company announced that it will remove presenteeism from employees who join the strike" , "I'm going to complain to the person responsible for human resources: they wrongly settled my presenteeism" , "As I work in the black, I don't have a reward for presenteeism." » .
Presenteeism as a problem
In other countries, however, presenteeism is a health problem linked to work. In these cases, presenteeism appears when a worker, for fear of losing his job, goes to his workplace even when he is sick or unable to perform normally. This causes a loss of productivity for the company in question.
Much has been debated about workplace presenteeism and those who criticize it consider that it is the result of the terrible professional conditions that exist in the current market. Thus, the fear of being unemployed makes workers go to work even when they are not in the best health conditions.
In philosophy, presentism is the doctrine that maintains that the only thing that exists is the present.
The notion in philosophy
Within philosophy , presentism is the current that affirms that the past and the future are not part of reality, since the only thing that exists is the present . According to this doctrine, both the past and the future are only logical constructions developed by human beings.
There are many who defend and advocate presenteeism. Thus, for example, we can say that Buddhists are in total agreement with it, as demonstrated by certain documents of this religion in which the idea is expressed that only the present moment is real and physical, while the past and the future are unreal.
Starting from this idea we can say that presentism maintains a close relationship with an expression or maxim that has been maintained from Latin: Carpe Diem , which means "live in the moment." In this case, this advice does not have such a complicated philosophical process behind it, but it does determine that what is really important, what exists and what we can change or improve, is the present.
That maxim became an emblem thanks, for example, to the famous film "Dead Poets Society" ( 1989 ), directed by Peter Weir and starring the late Robin Williams . This gives life to a teacher who comes to teach at a center still based on old norms, who wants his young students to find their way and do so by giving their lives the changes they need.