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Review the following lectures:

1. Understanding the Financial Impact of Employee Absence
2. Employee Absence, Productivity Loss, and Costs
3. Identifying and Measuring Employee Absence

Discussion Questions

• Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link "Doing Discussion Questions Right" and any specific instructions for this topic.
• Before the end of the week, begin commenting on at least two of your classmates' responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. Submit your responses in the Discussion Area.

Tasks

• Select any one of the following starter bullet point sections. Review the important themes within the sub-questions of each bullet point. The sub-questions are designed to get you thinking about some of the important issues. Your response should provide a succinct synthesis of the key themes in a way that articulates a clear point, position, or conclusion supported by research. Select a different bullet point section than what your peers have already posted so that we can engage in several discussions on relevant topics. If all the bullet points have been addressed, then you may begin to reuse the bullet points with the expectation that varied responses continue.

Respond to one of the discussion questions below:

Discussion 1: Analyze a company that has been successful in reducing absenteeism.

Discussion 2: Evaluate an article from the South University Library or Harvard Business Review that discusses the high cost of employee absenteeism.