# leaveism

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The practice of employees using flexitime and other leave entitlement schemes to take time off when they are in fact too unwell to go to work.
2. The practice of employees taking work away to complete outside of paid hours, e.g. at home or on holiday.

## Etymology
From the noun leave (“permission to be absent”) + -ism, coined in 2013 by Dr Ian Hesketh when researching wellbeing of UK police workers.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/leaveism