More than a Million Casualties a Day: Labour Absenteeism Plunges the Self-Employed and Small Businesses

In Spain, the number of hours not worked due to absences corresponds to 1,252,377 employees who had not come to their jobs any day. The figure is not an exaggeration, but an estimate recorded in the latest report of the Adecco Group Institute on absenteeism. To understand the magnitude of the problem it is as if, every day, the equivalent of the whole population of Zaragoza and Seville disappeared suddenly. A phenomenon that, far from referring,…