Counting Faculty and Staff Absences

USA“Efforts to track H1N1 on college campuses this fall have focused almost exclusively on students, but the University of New Mexico has introduced Absence Tracking, a daily survey to keep tabs on the numbers of faculty and staff who call in sick. Thursday was the first day that an already-appointed ‘time keeper’ — the person who monitors absences for payroll purposes — in each university department was required to submit by noon each weekday an estimated total of illness-related absences, whether the employee was sick with H1N1, the seasonal flu or another illness, or was out to take care of a sick family member …” (more)

[Jennifer Epstein, Inside Higher Ed, 25 September]

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