Absenteeism

Many causes of absenteeism are legitimate—personal illness or family issues, for example—but it's often due to other factors such as a poor work environment or workers who are not happy with their jobs or coworkers.

Absenteeism can have a seriously adverse impact on a business's operations and, ultimately, its profitability.

This chart, based on figures from a CCH Unscheduled Absence Survey, shows the maximum and minimum cost per employee for unscheduled absences in small businesses and plainly shows that absenteeism can be expensive
Absenteeism and small business

The minimum cost per employee for unscheduled absences in the smallest businesses was more than $100, while the maximum cost reached upwards of $500 per year!