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Purpose * The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired weekly hours of work on employee absence. Design/methodology/approach * The authors used a nationally representative, employer-employee matched sample of over 39,000 employees and applied zero-inflated Poisson regressions. Findings * Work hours discrepancy has a significant impact on employee absence. This impact is different among employees who want to work more hours and those who want to work fewer hours. Originality/value * This study provides new insights into the determinants of employee absence and the implications of constraining employees in their choice of weekly hours of work.