Tis The Season
No, we're not talking about the holiday season today. It is the cold and flu season. How many of you have gone to work when your sniffling, feverish, achy body screamed that it really wanted to be home in bed? I have been guilty of this. Okay - I've been guilty more than once. (Does it count when you tell the doctor you won't need a written slip to be excused from work but you don't tell him that it's because you aren't planning to stay home?) Does anyone tell me to go to these extremes? No, in fact the opposite is true! So why do I do it? My co-workers probably wonder the same thing. Why do any of us do it? A survey by LifeCare, an employee services firm in Connecticut, found that 90% of surveyed workers admit to coming to work when ill. 90%?
During last year's flu season we first started seeing more and more reports on the actual cost to employers of having employees come to work when they should be staying home. The most recent issue of sharedHR bulletin includes an article further exploring this issue.
When should an employee stay home? Why don't they stay home? What impact does this have on the workplace as a whole? Do companies need to explicitly state that employees are expected to stay at home when ill? Do you cringe when a co-worker comes into your office and sneezes? Do your company's employees feel the need to come to work when sick?
To read the complete article, "Employees Should Be Incented Not To Bring Illness Into The Workplace" from the November 2005 sharedHR Bulletin click here: Achoo!
Posted by Denise Knutson, Senior Consultant, The H.S. Group
During last year's flu season we first started seeing more and more reports on the actual cost to employers of having employees come to work when they should be staying home. The most recent issue of sharedHR bulletin includes an article further exploring this issue.
When should an employee stay home? Why don't they stay home? What impact does this have on the workplace as a whole? Do companies need to explicitly state that employees are expected to stay at home when ill? Do you cringe when a co-worker comes into your office and sneezes? Do your company's employees feel the need to come to work when sick?
To read the complete article, "Employees Should Be Incented Not To Bring Illness Into The Workplace" from the November 2005 sharedHR Bulletin click here: Achoo!
Posted by Denise Knutson, Senior Consultant, The H.S. Group
posted by The H.S. Group at
6:24 AM
1 Comments:
I like the idea the article expresses of telecommuting. That way, employees who just can't let go are still able to perform part of their responsibility without the fear of costing the company further by spreading their illness to other employees and continuing the vicious cycle.
However, this by no means should be the standard when employees are sick but rather an exception for those who want to work.
By
Anonymous, at 8:42 AM
Post a Comment
<< Home