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The question remains whether these measures are cost-effective. You can't put a price on human life(unless you're an insurance company), but you definitely can
by Tade0 6y ago
The question remains whether these measures are cost-effective.
You can't put a price on human life(unless you're an insurance company), but you definitely can on sick days.
I have a data point, namely a few friends who seasonally get the flu and take sick days for that. On average it shaves off ~2% of their annual work hours.
At this rate I can't tell if this is worth the trouble, especially that a few of them definitely catch those viruses from their kindergarten-attending children.
- mschuster91 6y agoThe flu and cough season alone was responsible for ~20 in 100 employees going off sick in Germany 2019 (https://www.barmer.de/presse/bundeslaender-aktuell/berlin-brandenburg/standortinfo/barmer-gesundheitsreport-2019-202108 https://www.barmer.de/presse/bundeslaender-aktuell/berlin-br...), with an average sick time-off of 14-22 days a year. This is a lot of lost productivity, even when one takes into account that the 2019 flu season was nasty (I was off for two weeks too, hardest hit in about one and a half decades for me). Side note: I assume you're American - just ask yourself how many of your friends and colleagues go to work while symptomatic because you don't have mandatory sick days that don't count against regular vacation and so end up spreading contagions... I agree that the sick days number in Germany seems quite excessive but I rather had a loss in productivity than getting sick from co-workers and ending out sick for weeks.
- maxerickson 6y agoIt's an exponential effect though.