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October 04, 2005

From the Des Moines Business Record Daily e-mail news update:

Many workers not ill on 'sick days'

Nearly half of all workers said they called into work sick with a fake excuse in the last 12 months, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder.com.

The survey, "Out of the Office 2005," found that 43 percent of workers said they called in sick when they felt well at least once during the last year, up from 35 percent in the survey conducted a year earlier. The most popular reason for missing work was the desire to relax and catch up on sleep. The most popular day for calling in sick was Wednesday, with 27 percent of workers fabricating an excuse on that day of the week. Monday ranked second, with 26 percent of workers reporting they had used a bogus excuse to call in sick on that day. More than one-third of employees surveyed, 38 percent, said they feel their sick days are equivalent to vacation days.

Shocking. I feel unwell...

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