Absenteeism due to disability in the private security industry

Abstract

Work absenteeism has awakened a growing interest in study due to its harmful impact on organizations, it interferes in the optimal development of competencies, knowledge, skills, abilities, skills, experiences and aptitudes of those who are considered the intellectual resource of the company and a fundamental element for the achievement of organizational success. The objective is to identify the causes that originate work absenteeism in a private security and surveillance company in the city of
Barranquilla, which has offices around Colombia. The study is descriptive, with an inductive method of transversal type carried out from a database of up to 14,107 records of incapacities registered in the different headquarters of this company during the year 2019, with a monthly measurement frequency. On the other hand, sociodemographic and labor variables were determined, such as: sex, area, position, work seniority, time of incapacity, which were classified from lowest to highest, where
the lowest representative number is 1 day and the highest number is up to 341 days. Absenteeism in the security company V.P Global is represented by high percentages (51.35 %) or a high volume of incapacities, which may be directly affecting the company in terms of profitability.