If you’ve got a cold or even a mild case of the flu, you’ll probably try to go to work. It’s the American work ethic: No days off, ever. 69% of us don’t take sick days. But here’s the truth: Your coworkers WANT you gone, even if it means they have to do more work to cover for you. Check out these results of a new survey.
1. 63% of people say it’s unprofessional to go to work with a cold.
2. 62% say they’d feel more guilty about getting a coworker sick than taking a day off.
3. And 70% would tell a sick coworker to go home, if they could do it anonymously.
On the bright side, the days of people sucking it up and going into work sick could be coming to an end, thanks to good ol’ millennials and their “I don’t feel guilty about taking days off, you’re lucky to have a genius like me working for you at all” attitude.
90% of people under 34 say they’d take a sick day if they weren’t feeling well.
(USA Today / PR Newswire)
