Employee drug use, demographic characteristics, work reactions, and absenteeism

Employees in a large work organization participated in an investigation of relationships between drug use and absenteeism and tardiness. Specifically, the study investigated the extent to which both self-reported and urine-screened drug use accounted for variance in several types of absenteeism, as well as tardiness, above and beyond that accounted for by demographic and work reaction variables. The results showed that employee drug use accounted for additional statistically significant variance in overall absenteeism and in absenteeism due to injuries and suspensions, as well as days tardy. Implications of these findings for organizational drug testing are discussed. Language: en