Sick days decline because workers fear of job cuts during recession
June 6, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Employees took on average 6.4 days sick last year, costing the economy £17bn, the latest CBI/ Pfizer health survey, out today, shows. This is the lowest amount of sick leave recorded since the survey began in 1987, when the average was 8.2 days.
Workplace health specialists said staff were scared about job cuts and had struggled into work when ill to “show face”.
Cary Cooper, a workplace health professor at Lancaster University, said: “During the recession people are turning up to work when sick because they are frightened not to turn up to work. The reason sickness absence has declined is not because we have good [sickness] management, but because people want to show face.”
Read the original article at Telegraph