Working in the office 5 days/week to build company culture is a myth: PwC report

Re:Working in the office 5 days/week to build company cultur... by majke on Friday September 20, 2024 @11:44PM (#41607325)

What is your location?

Here, in Poland, its mostly the kids bringing infections home. I usually expect at least one week off due to sickness in early fall, and then proper flu (taking around 10 days) in december/january. This is the norm.

I remember a stark contrast with the UK where, I guess due to the climate, the kids dont get sick at all.

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Re:Working in the office 5 days/week to build company cultur... by repiret on Saturday September 21, 2024 @12:53AM (#41607570)

In my experience in the US, it's about the same. Although it seems my house doesn't get quite as sick as yours; I don't think I've ever been sick enough long enough to take 10 days off work.

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Re:Working in the office 5 days/week to build company cultur... by BrandoElFollito on Saturday September 21, 2024 @09:47AM (#41609954)

Same in France. The threshold for "can go to school" is "no fever".

So you have plenty of kids sneezing and coughing as if they were in a final stage of tuberculosis and there was no tomorrow.

They are taught to sneeze in their arm (and they do it) but not coughing. So they cough as of it was the olympics again and there would be a prize for the one who coughs further.

For the record, I have two children (now students) so they did their share of spreading diseases (to home and at school)

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Re:Working in the office 5 days/week to build company cultur... by soco on Monday September 23, 2024 @09:41AM (#41625989)

Which is the reason I started a few years ago doing the seasonal flu shots (then covid too) and lo, no more sickness time. I'm aware they never cover 100% of the strains but seems I was in the lucky majority. Now that kids are growing up probably I'll continue, it's nice to not worry about sitting with fever at home.

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