Job Dissatisfaction, Bad Bosses Blamed for False 'Sick Days'

October 11, 2007 at 7:03 PM General Health News
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However, workers don’t tend to take sickies when they start a new job, she said. "It takes time to figure out what is the norm in that workplace, and they learn it by watching what happens when someone else takes a sickie. If there are no consequences, the door for sickies is seen to be legitimately opened,” she said.

Juliet Bourke, a partner at Aequus Partners, said that a lateral approach and greater workplace flexibility could prove helpful in reducing sick leaves.

"Enabling greater workplace flexibility has been shown in research to result in lower levels of unplanned absences. If employees can plan a morning off to meet a tradesman they won't disguise the absence by taking a 'sickie,’” Bourke said.

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