Being sick your fault WFH

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...gned-work.html

WFH is fuelling sick note Britain, says minister with record 2.5million people signed off work

• Bad posture while WFH may have fuelled rise in those on long-term sick leave
• Poor mental health since the Covid pandemic is also partly to blame, MP said

[JustKeepSwimming]

Being locked up for 2 years and told if you hug a loved one you'll both die.

Unable to afford housing, heating or food with no end in sight.

All public waterways including beaches covered in literal tulip.

I agree with the commercial landlords, has to be WFH.

[tazdevil]

If you're WFH how can you be off sick?

If your home is your office then you'd have to be very ill to be unable to work and even then you can still work. The one time I was in hospital I got the notebook out and worked whilst laid up in bed

I've worked from my home office for 25 years now and never had a day off sick and although I've felt grotty at times I find getting on with work is the best cure

As for bad posture be a professional and invest in a decent chair and desk

[JustKeepSwimming]

If you're WFH how can you be off sick?

If your home is your office then you'd have to be very ill to be unable to work and even then you can still work. The one time I was in hospital I got the notebook out and worked whilst laid up in bed

I've worked from my home office for 25 years now and never had a day off sick and although I've felt grotty at times I find getting on with work is the best cure

As for bad posture be a professional and invest in a decent chair and desk

No work no pay is a pretty good deterrent against taking sick day.

3 months sick leave at full pay? Kinda has the opposite effect...

[Uncle Albert]

The one time I was in hospital I got the notebook out and worked whilst laid up in bed

Just a warning to anyone intending to do this. Do NOT place your laptop on your chest while hooked up to an ECG monitoring machine. I've never seen so many people rush so quickly to my bedside!

[vetran]

Just a warning to anyone intending to do this. Do NOT place your laptop on your chest while hooked up to an ECG monitoring machine. I've never seen so many people rush so quickly to my bedside!

you sure that wasn't because of the porn you were watching?

[Uncle Albert]

you sure that wasn't because of the porn you were watching?

Sadly I was looking at nothing more stimulating than a project plan. If there's a next time I'll go better prepared.

[vetran]

Sadly I was looking at nothing more stimulating than a project plan. If there's a next time I'll go better prepared.

corr look at the Gantt chart on that!!!

[d000hg]

If you're WFH how can you be off sick?

If your home is your office then you'd have to be very ill to be unable to work and even then you can still work.

People off sick are rarely incapacitated to the point they cannot drive/travel either though, unless it's a stomach bug and you need to be near the loo.
Being able to physically get out of bed and sit in front of the computer doesn't mean you are working though. There's a good chance you get nothing done, or your work is substandard - either way this is bum-on-seat mentality. Good managers would rather you take a day or two and come back to decent productivity quickly, rather than force yourself to do a crap job for a week.

Of course, few of us are really ever totally unable to do things. It feels like it, but if I were a farmer, I would have no choice but to work in all weather. If I was living hand-to-mouth as a day-labourer, probably the same. But that's necessity not aspiration.

[NotAllThere]

If you're WFH how can you be off sick?

When you've a high temperature so your mental acuity is whacked, or when you just need to sleep, or when you're rushing off to the loo to expel noxious stuff from either of both ends...

But yes, apart from when feeling very bad, I've just told my boss that my output will be reduced for a bit.

The only time I've been officially off sick (which requires a sick note after 3 days) was when I had covid, when I was in hospital with sepsis, and in the time between one eye having a cataract operation and the other having it done - although I rigged up my TV projector so I could do some work.