The average is down from 7.6 to 6.6 days a year by all accounts - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29504568
How does that your sick leave stack up with that?
How does that your sick leave stack up with that?
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How many days a year, on average, do you take off work sck?
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Never more than two a year until 2013.
Then I had about 30 days signed off.
Then I had about 30 days signed off.
On average one or two but a fair few with none at all.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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The year I went contracting and no longer got paid if I didn't go in, my average days off sick a year dropped from about half a dozen to around zero. My left leg fell off one night, but I still managed to hop into work the next morning and invoice.
Gary Leeds
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- May 5, 2008
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none because any days off sick here have to be taken as holiday or you don't get paid anything for the first 3 days until SSP kicks in. So no matter how bad I am feeling I come in and make sure I spread the cold/cough/insert illness here, with the directors who made the rules (who incidentally do get sick pay)
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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Haven't taken any in the last year but I imagine 6 is about right in previous years.
LamieRobertson
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The only days I take off seem to be sun related and with reluctance
I should add that over the past five years I've ended up having minor ops due to sun damage on my skin..last one was a melanoma on my calf and I was ordered to take 4 days off or risk the wound opening otherwise being self employed I work on
I should add that over the past five years I've ended up having minor ops due to sun damage on my skin..last one was a melanoma on my calf and I was ordered to take 4 days off or risk the wound opening otherwise being self employed I work on
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Hillian1
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Not many. 2 maybe 3 a year and then only if my boss sends me home.
Grombleton
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- Dec 31, 2011
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For my evening job - probably one day a year on average. (been there 12 years)
For my day job: I'm self-employed, so I don't get sick days. I either choose to work or I don't.
For my day job: I'm self-employed, so I don't get sick days. I either choose to work or I don't.
Scoffers
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Almost never had an official day off sick. I tend to 'work from home' if I'm not 100% and since my boss is in the US, it works well 
Few. The last day I took off work ill was about 4 years ago when I had really bad food poisoning. I'm very lucky as I rarely get ill; but I do look after myself and eat healthily and keep myself fit which I think plays a big part.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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How many people call in sick using that special Calling In Sick voice that suggests death may be imminent?
Been here 18 years. I had 2 weeks off in about 1997 in hospital after a heart scare. Apart from that about 10 days total, I reckon.
melias shoes
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- Oct 14, 2010
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None. I don't earn if I don't work. Very rarely have a day off for anything.
mikeyjh
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Another WFH if not 100%. One of the most annoying things ever is people turning up in the office with colds etc, in some sort of heroic gesture. Bloke turned up last week and was very quickly disappearing to the lavs with a bug caught from his wife. Back in the next day cos he felt a bit better overnight - Beggars belief.
I haven't taken any since 2009, although a few years before that I was off for two months in one go.