Holidays = More Faked Sick Days
Although roughly one-third of workers calls in sick when they are not really sick during the course of a year, the number spikes during the holiday season. This increase is likely due to people spending time with family, shopping, preparing for the holidays, and taking sick days because they ran out of their annual allowance of vacation days. A survey shows that 32% of workers called in sick when they were not at least once in the last year, while 10% did so three or more times. Additionally, men were found to be less likely to take fake sick days than women (26% compared to 37%).
How much of an impact do you think employees taking fake sick days has on society in the form of external costs?
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The external costs could be fairly high if this phenomenon happened around the country in large scale. America is already a consistently lower productivity country than many others, so this would only reduce the profits of individual companies as well as returns to the nation.
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