5 signs your employees want a promotion

5. Their attendance goes up or they practise ‘presenteeism’

Reddit user MarcusQuintus recalls: “The guy who got promoted to Team Leader at my current job (2 months before I joined) said that he got it mostly because of attendance and everyone else leaving.

“He was initially in a group of 20 and so many people quit, got fired, changed jobs, etc that he was one of the few people there who had been there over a year. There were other people who were notably better than him and had spotty attendance, but he was always at work.”

However, Adrien Lewis, Director at Active Absence says that presenteeism – being in work all the time, even when sick – is worrying.