There were a few months the company I work for was requiring the employees to work seven days a week with an extra four hours overtime on weekdays. During this time, absenteeism was on the rise. Everyone was so exhausted. There is a policy at work that allows an employee to be out self sick for up to three days for one attendance point, and no proof of the sickness was required. We had so many people taking three sick days just to have days off it was alarming. This policy has been in place for a very long time, and has not been overly used in that way until then. The company, although not intentionally, was affecting the resilience many people. Employees did not have the time to do those activities that allowed them to maintain their
resilience, because they were literally working and sleeping. Once the overtime settled down, the absenteeism returned to normal, and the resilience of the employees was no longer being affected.