Most unsurprising statistic of the year

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DimPrawn replied

11 August 2006, 18:23
Sick with envy!
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gingerjedi replied

11 August 2006, 16:56
I dont blame them though, if i was a permy sat in this office watching a contracter type this and he was earning 3.5 times as much as me for doing the exact same job i'd be on the sick all the time!
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xoggoth replied

11 August 2006, 16:01
Enormously more strikes too. If you still read my blog Dim you'd have had this news about 3 months ago.

PS Except the number of sick days has gone up 30% since I mentioned it. Sounds about right for the public sector. Soon the bastards will be retiring on full disability pensions before they have to attend an interview for the job.

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AlfredJPruffock replied

11 August 2006, 14:58
Public sector workers tend to have more sock days,sorry sick days, as they work harder than the private sector and so are more prone to stress related illness.

I read this somewhere or other so it must be true.

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hyperD replied

11 August 2006, 14:53
It's a big problem if it's an SME or a large company in a very competitive market.
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AtW replied

11 August 2006, 14:50
11 days is waste out of 250 days, that's 4.5%, hardly worth complaining about.
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Paddy replied

11 August 2006, 14:46
Going back ten years or so, I worked for a local authority. If the staff did not use up all of their allocated sick days they could take them as extra holiday at the end of the year.
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Phoenix replied

11 August 2006, 14:41
Originally posted by zeitghost

Yes.

And it's much worse than syphilis... at least for a while.

Glad to hear you got to compare the two diseases
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gingerjedi replied

11 August 2006, 14:36
I work in a public sector department and out of a team of 12 at least 2 are off every day, the boss is the worst culprit and the rest follow his example, when i came in feeling a bit under the weather he was trying to make me go home... sod that!

I would say those figures are a little conservative.
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Phoenix replied

11 August 2006, 14:36
Originally posted by zeitghost

I have: chicken pox at 35... not funny at all...

Lizards are like Chickens? They get the Pox!
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DimPrawn started a topic Most unsurprising statistic of the year

11 August 2006, 14:27
Most unsurprising statistic of the year

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4783721.stm

Public sector tops illness league

Local government workers have the most days off sick annually, a report from Bupa healthcare has said.

They take an average of 11 days off sick a year - more than twice as many as hotel and leisure trade staff, who have the best UK illness record.

I don't think I've had eleven days sick in my whole life.
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