The topic of employee absence is an issue that so far has been studied from the perspective of costs incurred by employers. The lengthening of the average life expectancy means that in terms of the next twenty years there will be a significant extension of the period of economic activity. Therefore, Return To Work (RTW) programs in the context of employees returning after absence will play an important role in building the competitive advantage of enterprises and be an opportunity for development. The aim of this article is to present the results of a bibliometric and scientometric analysis of the issue of RTW programs. The main point of reference are journals and publications included in the Web of Science database from 1900 to 2023, with a detailed analysis of works from the last twenty years, i.e. 2000-2021. The data obtained were used to perform a scientometric analysis, specifically focusing on: the number of publications, authorship and co-authorship, the number of citations, journals, thematic categories, institutions, countries and keywords. The study included 106 publications with a citation frequency of 1,801. The subject of RTW programs is most frequently discussed by researchers from the USA, Canada and Northern European countries. Researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Institute for Work Health, the University of Toronto, and VU University Medical Center have published the most in this area, constituting over 45% of publications.