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Originally Posted by DamianJ
What gets me is the US and work and sickness. I don't know how common this is, but one very large US adult company I know of demands employees take vacation days off if their are sick. What happens? People come in to work when they are sick because they don't want to lose what precious little vacation time they are given. THen, get this, other people get sick in the office!
I am sure this happens everywhere and it's nasty. If people are sick, they should be able to stay home and get better, not forced to come into work and spread it about.
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Call centers are very bad for this! Last year at one I used to work at this chick came in so sick she was puking between calls in a bin beside her. They made her stay because they couldn't afford to lose staffing levels. Then everyone else got sick. By the end fo the week they had to hire a disinfectant team to come in and treat all the common areas and office surfaces during that h1n1 outbreak. After she did leave one night she went to the doctor and they confirmed h1n1 with tests. If they would have just let her go home seeing how sick she was it would have saved me about 3 days pay and the company 100's of 1000's of dollars in lost revenue due to not meeting staffing levels and medical claims.
It's people who fake sick all the time though that create those problems unfortunately.