Sick in the office or healthy at home: "Sick parties" & presenteeism {Trend! Study}

A current survey shows that almost every third employee in Germany is from Anxiety going to work even when sick. On the other hand, every tenth person says they use the cold season to just go blue.

Who was interviewed?

According to a recent survey by the job and career platform Glassdoor, more than 70% of the German employees surveyed were absent from am for at least one day due to illness Workplace appeared. One in four (25,3%) even longer than seven days.

The study was conducted by market research institute Harris Interactive on behalf of Glassdoor. In Germany, between December 14 and 18, 2015, a total of 1.030 participants were Age between 16 and 64 years of age. The same representative survey was also conducted in Great Britain (1.033 participants), France (1.025 participants) and the Netherlands (1.050 participants).

Germany and the international comparison

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In international comparison, the figures are much lower: in the UK (51,8%), the Netherlands (48,2%) and France (41,7%), only about one in two 2015 employees have been reported to be ill ,

However, in Germany more than one in ten (10,1%) admitted to wanting to use the cold season to take a day off in the coming month. The rate is up to 3,5% higher than in the other countries examined. In a gender comparison, it is noticeable that the proportion of simulating men (13,9%) in this country is more than twice as high as that of Women (5,8%). The gap is smaller in the other countries.

Men more willing to "celebrate sick"

However, one result can be seen across countries: on average, men are apparently the brazen simulants. Because the “Blaumacher” are largely in agreement when it comes to the motives: In Germany, 60,7% state that they simply want to take a break, while 38,7% justify taking sick leave with the fact that they have worked hard and therefore deserve it. Interesting: 10,7% admit that they want to use the "unexpected" day off to go shopping - 18,2% to visit friends or Family.

A comparison of the generations shows that the younger age groups are more susceptible: around one in seven people under the age of 24 (15,7%) plans to take a break during the cold season despite being in good physical condition. With increasing age, however, this tendency decreases - among the over 55-year-olds, taking sick leave is a rare exception. In this age group, not even one in twenty (4,7%) would miss a day if the Health don't force him to.

Every second person finds that colleagues return to the office too soon after illness

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But if employees are really ill, they shouldn't feel guilty about it feel or worry about office gossip, but prefer to recover at home and thus reduce the risk of infection for their colleagues. The phenomenon of presenteeism – that is, showing up at work despite being ill – is nevertheless very pronounced on the German labor market.

Almost half of those surveyed (49,8%) stated that their colleagues returned to work too soon after being ill Office come. Almost every third employee in Germany (28,4%) prefers not to stay at home for fear of losing their job and shows up at work despite being ill.

With a cold even less than every second person stays away from work. As the results of the representative survey show, 60,6% of Germans do not even give themselves a day's rest from coughing, runny nose and hoarseness. One in five (19,9%) states that they feel pressured by superiors not to log out of illness.

Colleagues under suspicion

On the other hand, almost every third German (30,1%) also believes that colleagues submit more sick days than is actually necessary. Is the mistrust in the office in the often quoted “envious republic” Germany particularly high?

Not necessarily: the French are a little less skeptical about this question (32,8%) and the British (29,8%). In the Netherlands, on the other hand, only 16,9% find that their colleagues are able to relax for an unnecessarily long time.

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