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The City’s new presenteeism: sending an email at midnight

You may be able to choose whether you check emails at 2am, but should you be expecting others to?

The City’s new presenteeism: sending an email at midnight
Photo: Bill Brown

As I transcribed a Treasury Select Committee hearing in June this year, I was intrigued by the term “new presenteeism”.

I knew what presenteeism was — people coming into work when they are unwell — but I was not sure what new presenteeism meant.

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