Does your company monitor sick days?
I bet they do. I think it’s a requirement since maximising efficiency was the latest buzz word (we’ve still yet to force that notion out of the heads of leaders)
Now, because of this monitoring, people are getting called in for sickness patterns. Quite often, these patterns are utter bollocks, like ‘every second Tuesday’ or always late on a Wednesday. You sit there completely unaware you had been sick in some pattern type way, of course you’ll get on to your doctor about it, no you haven’t got a good reason for it always being this day.
It’s dehumanising. Reducing your separate bouts of illness to a binary form of at work or not at work.
We need to stop this, making people compete for their minutes of humanity to be paid. Have a smoke break if you want. Have some sick days. Have it as an allocation, if you reach a certain point, your job is not suiting you and you should find work with better hours or that suits you better that you aren’t getting as ill..if necessary, disability payments should plug the pay gap! If you earned a certain amount as a professor or a doctor, you could reduce to 3 and a half days a week. Disability payments or insurance payments plug the gap, keeping the skills in the system, ensuring a quicker recovery and back to work.. yes some people will struggle if they cant afford insurance, but will all maybe get an allowance sickness pay boosters under disability legislation.
End of the day humans get sick, and we should be encouraged to access jobs that suit our skills. If you can’t move about much, enter professions that can support that. Disability or sickness issues need to be honest conversations; what can be done?
But that’s like a serious conversarion like you’ve been sick every Wednesday for 2 months because you’re tired half way through the week, or you’re always late on Mondays because you’re hungover. Both of these have valid resolutions and need some serious thought. Repeated illness is just that, allowed but not questioned until necessary. And if someone takes a rough day?
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