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Most of the time WSJ is a great paper, but once in a while it feels like they let a few angry CEOs get together and ghostwrite a front page article with no over
by habosa 3y ago
Most of the time WSJ is a great paper, but once in a while it feels like they let a few angry CEOs get together and ghostwrite a front page article with no oversight.
From the chart: among Americans with paid leave about 33% of them took ANY sick days in 2023. In 2019 that was about 23%.
So even after a global pandemic, a WFH revolution, and an economic downturn we still have 67% of this group never ever missing work due to illness.
And we’re being called lazy!
I hope the extra sick days are people faking it so they can interview elsewhere.
- ghaff 3y agoI wasn't sure what to make of that article. Most of the examples were blue collar and it's not hard to see why there might have been more sick days the past few years. On the other hand with more flexible working arrangements for some workers, it's also not hard to see why someone not feeling well might literally phone it in for a couple hours rather than taking a formal sick day. Without a lot more data I'm not inclined to conclude a lot from a few numbers.
- tanjtanjtanj 3y agoNobody where I work ever takes a sick day, ever. We get 3 sick days a year that roll over and get cashed out under certain circumstances and "unlimited" PTO.
- ghaff 3y agoThat seems like a weird system unless it's required by some law. Why wouldn't anyone just take the unmetered PTO and then cash out the sick days if they can?
- tanjtanjtanj 3y agoThat is exactly what happens. The reason this is done is previously the company gave 20-30 days of paid vacation per year and those could be rolled over or paid out and now they have no such obligation.