Zeroing out employees’ sick time pretty much ensures that some people will come to work sick in order to avoid that—thereby putting the rest of the workforce at risk. Advertisement.

People are missing work because they're overwhelmed or burned out, or they just need a day to reset. This is also fueling the relative increase in sick days among younger people.

A survey of 2,000 people were polled and the research revealed that less than half of them would call in sick to work when they show a single symptom.

Researchers at The University of Western Australia have found practices put in place to reduce employees presenting to work ...

Sick notes used to sign people off work could be overhauled under plans to slash unemployment, Liz Kendall has revealed, as she refused to rule out further benefit cuts. The Work and Pensions ...

Sick Days Are Skyrocketing–but Here’s What No One Is Talking About. Gen-Z leads the workplace in sick days. Some people attribute this to good boundaries, but it may be not so wholesome.

“More people will be working while they're sick.” Before the pandemic, Robert Half published results from a survey showing that nine out of 10 employees go to work sick.

Millions of sick people are not taking time off work or are returning to work while still unwell due to money worries, research suggests. More than 40% of workers said that increasing statutory ...

A startling number of people conceal an infectious illness to avoid missing work, travel, or social events, new research suggests. A startling number of people conceal an infectious illness to ...

Employees who feel ill have a tough choice: face criticism if they come to work and possibly infect co-workers, or take the blame for burdening their colleagues with more work if they stay home.

Secondly, forcing people who are sick into work will, inevitably, lead to their illnesses becoming worse – putting even more pressure on the NHS. The economist Andy Haldane, currently the chief ...

UK workers are taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade, research suggests. Staff took on average 7.8 sick days in the past year, up from 5.8 before the pandemic, the Chartered ...