I've always felt this for my entire working career which is about 20 years now (16 dev and 4 retail). Sick workers productivity was close to 0 in almost all in

I've always felt this for my entire working career which is about 20 years now (16 dev and 4 retail). Sick workers productivity was close to 0 in almost all instances. For Retail that meant they were not on the checkouts but out on the shop floor goofing around and ignoring customers. They could also be in the toilets for hours at a time which meant that the other employees would be picking up slack for them rather than them being off and having to get someone to cover for them. In terms of dev they would be in the office but only there in person. If you had a meeting they would make seemingly random decisions. If they are programming at their desk their code would be buggy and could take up to 10 times as long for them to write. I'd rather be able to explain that a feature was late as one of the devs was ill rather than they came in and tried to work whilst being ill and failed. Being ill and taking time to recover is part of doing business. Companies should factor this into their plans. Not doing so is a company issue not an issue with an employee being sick. I mean no-one wants to be ill it's not really your choice. I'm not enjoying myself being ill, it sucks. Going to work draws this process out and makes your fellow co-workers sick. I've always taken time off when I'm ill and I will continue to do so and so should everyone else. P.S. I include Mental illness in this as well. If you're having a bad day / week / month mentally TAKE SOME TIME OFF!