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Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days (boingboing.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Masimatutu@lemm.ee to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] nufanman21@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Typical "back in my day" garbage. Why would you even want people to come in and spread their sickness? Wouldn't that cause even more lost production time?

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[–] correcthorsedickbatterystaple@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

...not if everyone is afraid to use sick days / lose wages / repercussions from management / yadda yadda yadda

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[–] BenGFHC@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Regardless of whether they are present or not, if their productivity is down the drain because they can't focus or are in pain, inefficiency rises, output and profits fall.

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