While more than half of bosses are skeptical of employees who phone in sick, a new study has revealed what is most likely to earn you the day in bed - and it's not having the cough.
Taking a break from vomiting(呕吐) to call your boss will get the most amount of sympathy with nearly three quarters of interviewees saying this would be reason enough to stay at home. The latest survey, which interviewed 2,500 employers and employees across the UK, named diarrhoea(腹泻) the second most worthy excuse with 71 percent of people admitting they wouldn't want to go too far from their toilet when struck down with the diarrhoea.
The research, conducted by UK healthcare provider Benenden, is just the latest to look at the nation's best (and worst) reasons for calling in sick—and the ones most likely to be believed by employers and your colleagues.
But despite continuous advocacy efforts, workers who give reasons like stress or mental health issues acquire much less sympathy and are much less likely to be believed.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that employers were more likely to accept back pain as a reason for not coming into work than stress or mental health.
“There is a strong commercial case for having a healthy and engaged workforce, yet employers are obviously ignoring the impact of an employee’ s physical and mental well-being on productivity, absenteeism and length of service,” Inci Duducu, director of healthcare provider Benenden, which conducted the latest study told The Independent.
According to research by healthcare company AXA PPP, two-thirds of employers don’t believe that suffering from stress, anxiety or depression is a serious enough reason for employees to be off work, despite it affecting one in four people on average every year.
And as the days grow shorter and the mornings colder and darker, the risk of suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) will only increase.
“Many people don’t consider SAD to be a real form of depression due to its seasonal nature. But the feelings that people experience are very real and just as severe as other types of depression. SAD presents most commonly in women and occurs from October through to January,” said Dr Mark Winwood, AXA PPP healthcare’s Director of Psychological Services.
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