Absenteeism Rate
Absenteeism rate measures unplanned absence: days lost to unscheduled absence divided by the days that should have been worked, expressed as a percentage. Planned leave is excluded, because it is not the thing being measured.
Also called: absence rate, unplanned absence, absenteeism metric
Key facts
- Numerator
- Unplanned absence daysNot approved leave.
- Denominator
- Scheduled working daysExcluding holidays and weekly offs.
- Read
- By team, over timeA single company figure hides the signal.
What counts as absenteeism
Unscheduled absence: the days somebody was expected and did not come, without approved leave. Approved home leave, public holidays and the weekly rest day are not absenteeism, and including them turns the metric into a measure of the holiday calendar.
Sick leave sits on the boundary. Most companies count it as unplanned absence for measurement while treating it as a full entitlement for policy, which is the right way round.
Reading it
The company-wide figure is close to useless on its own. The signal is in the comparison: one team consistently above the others, or a team whose figure climbs over a quarter. That is almost never a health pattern. It is usually workload, a manager, or a shift pattern people cannot sustain.
Which is why the metric is worth calculating and worth acting on, but not worth putting in front of individuals as a scorecard.
Absenteeism Rate, answered
Divide unplanned absence days by the number of scheduled working days in the period, then multiply by one hundred. Approved leave, public holidays and weekly offs are excluded from both figures.
No. Absenteeism measures unscheduled absence. Counting approved leave turns the metric into a measure of the leave policy rather than of attendance.
This page explains general practice in Nepal. It is not legal or tax advice, and statutory figures are revised from time to time. Check the current Act, rule or notice before acting on it.
Related terms
- Attrition RateAttrition rate is the proportion of employees who leave over a period, usually expressed annually. It is calculated as leavers divided by average headcount for the period, times one hundred.
- Sick Leaveबिरामी बिदाSick leave is paid leave for illness. Under Nepal's Labour Act 2074 an employee is entitled to twelve days a year at full remuneration, and unused days accumulate up to forty-five.
- Attendance RegularisationAttendance regularisation is the process for correcting an attendance record: a missed punch, a forgotten check-out, a day spent at a client site. The employee raises it, a manager approves it, and the corrected record carries an audit trail.
- Biometric Attendanceबायोमेट्रिक हाजिरीBiometric attendance records a punch using a physical identifier such as a fingerprint or a face, on a device at the workplace. Because the identifier cannot be handed to a colleague, it removes buddy punching, which is the main weakness of card and register systems.
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