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Going To Office When Ill Risks Long-Term Sick Leave Later
The trend, called "sickness presence", is becoming increasingly common as staff fear for their jobs during the recession.
In order to study the long-term impact of the behaviour, researchers randomly selected almost 12,000 Danes of working age, who had been in continuous employment for at least a year.
The participants had to answer questions on their attitudes to work, preparedness to take time off when ill, and general health.
They were asked how many times in the preceding year they had gone to work ill when it would have been reasonable to have stayed at home.
The researchers then combined their responses with official records detailing periods of sick leave taken, and lasting at least a fortnight, over the next 18 months.
Poor general health, a heavy workload, work-family life conflicts, a good level of social support, holding a senior post, and obesity featured most often among those who repeatedly came to work, despite being ill.
They found that workers who had done this at least half a dozen times were 53 percent more likely to end up going off sick for two weeks, and 74 percent more likely to take more than two months of sick leave, as against those who did not come to work when ill.
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