More sick leave after work-from-home advice was lifted
3 years, 1 month ago

More sick leave after work-from-home advice was lifted

NL Times  

Absenteeism due to illness increased from 4.2 percent to 4.6 percent in the period between when the Cabinet lifted the work-from-home advice at the end of September and reimplemented it last week. That is the largest increase since the outbreak of the coronavirus and the highest level in the pandemic, Financieele Dagblad reported based on figures from two large health and safety service providers. "In October, an average of 50,000 more employees were sick on a working day than in September," Jurriaan Penders of HumanCapitalCare said to the newspaper. "Since the abandonment of the work from home advice, we have seen more than a doubling, from 10 percent at the end of September to 25 percent at the beginning of November.

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Absenteeism due to flu reaches peak levels in January
10 months ago

Absenteeism due to flu reaches peak levels in January

NL Times  

The number of reports of illness reached its highest point of the flu season so far in January, that was reported by occupational health and safety service providers ArboNed and HumanCapitalCare, both part of HumanTotalCare and jointly serving around 1 million employees.The first month of the year had 85 per 1000 employees call in sick. The increase is related to …

Ill-gotten gains: Why does American society coerce us to work while sick?
10 months, 1 week ago

Ill-gotten gains: Why does American society coerce us to work while sick?

Salon  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon remove its five-day isolation guidance for people who are infected with COVID-19, according to a recent report in The Washington Post. But as one epidemiologist told NPR: "It's like saying, well, people aren't really wearing a seat belt, so I guess we can say seat belts don't matter.” A reversal in …

Flu season has an annoying side effect: ‘sick shaming’ at work
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Flu season has an annoying side effect: ‘sick shaming’ at work

Live Mint  

One sign your office life is officially back to normal: a colleague comes to work, hacking up a lung, and gets props for pushing through illness. “You really have to be unable to speak and unable to function to really make an excuse for yourself and say, ‘I’m going to take a sick day,’" says Alberta Johnson, founder and chief …

Sharp increase in small business absenteeism, sick leave in 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

Sharp increase in small business absenteeism, sick leave in 2022

NL Times  

The number of people absent from work in small and midsized enterprises rose sharply in 2022. Interpolis has said it is worrying that the number of people absent for a long time rose in 2022 compared to 2021 and the years before the coronavirus pandemic. When an organization struggles with not enough personnel, it creates added work pressure for its …

More workers calling out sick as flu, coronavirus spread
2 years, 2 months ago

More workers calling out sick as flu, coronavirus spread

NL Times  

Absenteeism due to illness is on the rise again, mainly due to workers getting the flu or coronavirus. Though the number of sick reports due to mental health complaints is also on the rise, NOS reports based on figures from occupational health and safety services Arboned and HumanCapitalCare. “We see that psychological absenteeism has actually been increasing gradually for a …

Sharp increase in people calling in sick with mental health problems
2 years, 3 months ago

Sharp increase in people calling in sick with mental health problems

NL Times  

Illness absenteeism is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. But the share of people calling in sick due to mental health problems - psychological absenteeism - has risen sharply, NU.nl reports based on figures from health and safety service providers HumanCare Capital and ArboNed. “The share of absenteeism for mental health reasons is increasing further in the total number of sick …

There’s a Looming Workplace Crisis. Employers Don’t Care.
2 years, 5 months ago

There’s a Looming Workplace Crisis. Employers Don’t Care.

Slate  

Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. Nearly two and a half years into a pandemic that has transformed many people’s work lives, companies still haven’t figured out how to manage COVID-related sick leave. Even …

Sick leave, work stress cost the economy over €18 billion last year
2 years, 6 months ago

Sick leave, work stress cost the economy over €18 billion last year

NL Times  

Sick leave dented the Dutch economy by more than 18 billion euros last year, according to insurance firm Nationale-Nederlanden. Coronavirus was among several causes of the increase, which also included longer periods of absenteeism, the insurer detailed in a report on developments in the field of absenteeism and work incapacity. The study found that the absenteeism rate also rose along …

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
2 years, 11 months ago

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum

Associated Press  

As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck. What’s more, Schneider noted that the share of workers with paid sick leave before the pandemic barely budged during the pandemic — 50% versus 51% respectively. “Now I …

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
2 years, 11 months ago

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum

LA Times  

As the raging Omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck. What’s more, Schneider noted that the share of workers with paid sick leave before the pandemic barely budged during the pandemic — 50% versus 51% respectively. “Now I …

Ten percent of doctors, nurses now on sick leave
3 years ago

Ten percent of doctors, nurses now on sick leave

NL Times  

One in ten hospital employees is currently sick at home. Kuipers also said that the number of coronavirus patients in hospitals would likely rise to above 3,200 in the next two weeks. In the most favorable case, the number of coronavirus patients in nursing wards will rise from over 2,200 now to 2,430 in mid-December. If the current growth continues, …

Pandemic prompts firms to offer paid sick leave—but workers still don't get it
3 years, 2 months ago

Pandemic prompts firms to offer paid sick leave—but workers still don't get it

Live Mint  

As American confronted the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, a significant workplace divide came into focus: Millions of workers had no paid sick time, and millions more lacked enough paid time off to cover a severe illness. But while many workers who already enjoyed paid leave now have even greater benefits, many more low-wage, part-time and hourly workers, as well as …

Curfew and home visit rules to be eased as hospitals ask staff to cancel holidays
3 years, 8 months ago

Curfew and home visit rules to be eased as hospitals ask staff to cancel holidays

Dutch News  

With coronavirus infections running at an average of 7,700 a day and intensive care occupancy at its highest level for almost a year, the Dutch government is widely expected to relax its coronavirus restrictions at a press conference on Tuesday. Health minister Hugo de Jonge would not confirm on Monday whether changes to the rules are in the pipeline, but …

Ontario’s COVID crisis: ‘This scenario was entirely preventable’
3 years, 8 months ago

Ontario’s COVID crisis: ‘This scenario was entirely preventable’

Al Jazeera  

Montreal, Canada – Dr Naheed Dosani says healthcare workers in Ontario are angry. “And the second I found out yesterday, immediately I asked them to write up the orders.” But for weeks before that, Ford had been easing restrictions based on case counts in various regions across Ontario despite health experts urging the right-wing, populist premier to keep measures in …

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