Are sickies a thing of the past?

If you’re a fan of the Peter Kay show, Car Share, you’ll have seen the perfect sickie in the making.

The chance of that precise scenario happening in real life may be slim, and even slimmer these days since it appears that fewer workers are taking sickies.

The Aviva Working Lives Report 2017 has revealed that 69% of employees surveyed said that they’d gone into work when they should have been off sick. Forty-one per cent said that if they take time off sick, the work just piles up. Twenty-three per cent said that they had taken a day off sick when they weren’t unwell. No employer wants workers pulling sickies.

There’s definitely a balance to be struck. But, contrary to what some employers may believe, a culture of ‘presenteeism’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Read More On Our Website...