leaveism.
The practice of employees using flexitime and other leave entitlement schemes to take time off when they are in fact too unwell to go to work.
Meaning & usage
The practice of employees using flexitime and other leave entitlement schemes to take time off when they are in fact too unwell to go to work.
The practice of employees taking work away to complete outside of paid hours, e.g. at home or on holiday.
Where this word comes from
From the noun leave (“permission to be absent”) + -ism, coined in 2013 by Dr Ian Hesketh when researching wellbeing of UK police workers.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.