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Leaveism is a term first coined in 2012 by Ian Hesketh, a doctoral researcher at Lancaster University Management School,UK to describe the phenomena of employees using flexi-time, annual leave, rest days and other leave entitlement schemes to have time off when they are in fact too unwell to go to work. He later extended the meaning to include occassions whereby employees took work home, or on holiday, that they could not complete in paid working hours. Hesketh's research, which centred around Well-being in the UK Police, sought to identify a lacuna in current thinking around Absenteeism and Presenteeism; of which there is a plethora of academic study and commentary. The aim of the study was to highlight that the true extent of sickness absence may be masked by the practice of Leaveism.