Table 2.

Reasons that led civil servants in leadership positions at a federal university in Brazil to engage in presenteeism in 2021

Organizational factors	Individual factors
Need for the job	Commitment/responsibility/fulfilling their role
Deadlines	Their desire to get the job done
Bureaucracy	Honor their position
Institutional, urgent demands/pressure	The possibility to reconcile rest with working from home
Accumulated work/not to accumulate work	Distraction from symptom/illness
Not to have a deputy/have to do other people’s work	Mild symptoms/symptoms that do not interfere with doing the job
Demands, text/voice messages, calls on apps	Enjoy what they do
Requests from students/advice for students	Not to overload colleagues/help colleagues
No trained person to do the job	Perform the necessary duties for running the department smoothly