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The title makes it seem (to me) like they're finding that open plan offices reduce sickness. But they're not reporting on the absence of sickness, but rather a
by skj 9y ago
The title makes it seem (to me) like they're finding that open plan offices reduce sickness.
But they're not reporting on the absence of sickness, but rather absence due to sickness, which they found occurred at a higher rate in open offices.
- sqldba 9y agoThe latter is how I understood it.
- scbrg 9y agoWhere are you from? I'm guessing that how you interpret the title might depend on your native language/dialect. Judging by the names of the authors, I'm guessing they're mostly Danish, or at least Scandinavian. As a native speaker of another Scandinavian language (Swedish), I understood the title as it was intended, but I'm not sure if the phrase "sickness absence" is the best way of expressing "absence due to sickness" to a native English speaker.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoBritish English would use "Sick leave". But I also speak Norwegian so perhaps that explains why it seemed unremarkable until I saw the comment above.
- vvesperr 9y agoI'm American and I understood "sickness absence" as the intended "sick leave" or "absence DUE TO sickness" but it did take me a second.