A hybrid approach of intelligent systems to help predict absenteeism at work in companies

In recent years, several surveys have been conducted on absenteeism and how this affects the routine of conducting productive operations in companies. Therefore, having criteria for predicting absenteeism at work can help managers in contingency actions reduce financial losses due to the absence of a worker in their workplace. The objective of this work is to apply the artificial intelligence concepts of a regularized fuzzy neural network, which combines the benefits of artificial neural networks with the fuzzy set theory to obtain more accurate results in predicting corporate absenteeism. The database called absenteeism at work, taken from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, which captured elements of a Brazilian company, was applied in a fuzzy neural network model that allows the calculation of the regressors, defining the estimate of the lack of hours of an employee. The results of the experiments prove that the intelligent model can help in the creation of a specialist system that assists in the prediction of absenteeism.