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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Pre-covid, it was extremely rare for someone to book a meeting over lunch. It happened maybe twice a year, and the organizer would be apologetic.
Now it’s routine - multiple times a week. I guess people stepping away from their desk for an hour at lunch is no longer a thing.
I’ve noticed people rarely take sick days anymore. Were people faking when they took 4-5 “I can’t some in today, nursing a cold/flu” days a year? Are they getting sick less? Or is the assumption now that you can just suck it up and work from home if you have a cold, flu, or gastro-intestinal issues?
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I think the sick days are a combination of a few things
- less people getting sick because more people work from home when a little sick. At least in the office world. That you can stay home on the days you aren’t too sick to work and not infect people I think reduces the sweeping sicknesses through the office
- shorter duration of actual periods of not being able to work. Even when knocked out with the Flu or something on most days you can do an hour or two of work without impairing recovery. So while you are too sick to come in and do a full day and too sick to attend meetings it’s rare that you are too sick to do anything.
- Less benefit to faking sick given the expectation to do some work.
So the combination of these things turns what used to be 3 days of work missed is down to 4hrs of work missed half of the time.