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Three plausible reasons off the top of my head on why open offices would experience less reported sick days. One: the same reason as experienced by garbage men
by sethammons 9y ago
Three plausible reasons off the top of my head on why open offices would experience less reported sick days.
One: the same reason as experienced by garbage men or sewer guys; greater exposure causing improved immune systems.
Two: being in an open office increases the top-down butts-in-seat observability, causing employees to come into the office even while sick to keep up a better work image.
Three: (what happens at my work) perhaps the work places that can support an open office can also support working from home and so instead of sick days being days off, employees just work from home with minor ailments, reducing the number of reported sick days. At least for me, if I have a slight cold, I'm still up for a mostly productive day, but I don't want to spread a cold to others in the office. So I work from home.
- arjie 9y agoMate, the results are the opposite. More sick days in open offices.
- Joe-Z 9y agoThe findings were that open-plan offices lead to more sick days (62% compared to cellular offices)
- Sharlin 9y agoThe finding is that open/shared offices increase, not decrease, sickness absences.
- sethammons 9y agoApparently I should not read when I first wake up if I want to avoid down voting :) I clearly read it backwards and thought it was an odd result so I jotted down a few reasons why I thought the strange result could occur. More obviously, if you are closer to other sick people, your odds of getting sick are higher.