Why Americans don't take sick days

Re:Why Americans don't take sick days by _cal on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @06:06PM (#12501603)

I work in tech, and in almost all of my engineering jobs I've had, if someone is sick they just work from home.

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Re:Why Americans don't take sick days by riboflava on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @06:11PM (#12501632)

"Work", yup, I see this too. To fully pull it off though you still need to be somewhat responsive to emails / IMs for the 'normal business hours'. Sometimes it's worth burning a PTO day to just go back to sleep, sick or not, and really start the day around 3pm without thinking about work at all until the next day's morning.

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Re:Why Americans don't take sick days by nunez on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:12PM (#12502626)

I wouldn't work if I used PTO; makes no sense. I'd rather arrange a shifted schedule for the day

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