How do the statistics aye something about the sick Culter of a country? If this would have been made a year prior I’d have been a part of germanys number but only because I had no serious illness.
Why a year prior? Because covid is a fucking bastard!
Germany (before Covid, last time I worked in a huge office building):
“I think I’ve catched a cold…”
“GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE AND DON’T DARE TO COME BACK TO THE OFFICE THIS WEEK!”
Hm. In Bulgaria we have a cap on the social benefit payments on your salary. So there is a 10% tax on all of your income, regardless of how much it is, then, up to the limit of like 1500 euro, about 20% that is used for maternity leave, sick days, pensions, etc.
So this means two things here. If you are under the max limit, you basically take “sick days” with a note from your doctor when you are out of PTO. This is mass practice and I’ve heard multiple of my acquaintances admitting to it.
Then there are the high-earners (basically the IT industry + medium++ business owners and CEO type of stuff) who would get as little as 1/6-1/5 of their salary if they took a sick day. So the preference is to take a normal day off.
Not sure how it is in other European countries. There is some debate about reinstating progressive taxing, but there are too many doubts that the money would get misused
Is it because people are healthier or because they couldn’t take time off, it is not specified.
I was thinking i haven’t taken a sick day ever, but i caught covid during an internship.
We love to chuck a sickie in Australia
People are discouraged from taking sick days in the United States mainly because they subtract from their vacation days unless they land a really good job with good benefits. Basically we don’t actually have separate sick leave and people want to take vacation plus we also aren’t guaranteed a minimum PTO. Only in federal jobs are you given that so anyone in the private sector which is a lot of people has no PTO guarantees and must then work multiple years sometimes some people work five years just to get a week off anyone who’s in a country who guarantees PTO please give thanks to that because that allows you to maintain assemblance of work-life balance
Australians must be really unhealthy.
We don’t have “sick leave”. My company does “permissive time off” – they don’t care as long as you’re getting work done.
In practice, they probably actually pay less for sick/vacation time – no “use it or lose it” pressure, so people forget about it. And, they don’t have to pay out accrued time when people leave.
US lower than I expected
Show me the graphics of “the most taken sick days” and I will show you normal work vs employees ethics.
In france you could have as many sick days as you want, as long as the doctor says that you need them, and the social security will pay your salary.
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How do the statistics aye something about the sick Culter of a country? If this would have been made a year prior I’d have been a part of germanys number but only because I had no serious illness.
Why a year prior? Because covid is a fucking bastard!
Germany (before Covid, last time I worked in a huge office building):
“I think I’ve catched a cold…”
“GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE AND DON’T DARE TO COME BACK TO THE OFFICE THIS WEEK!”
Hm. In Bulgaria we have a cap on the social benefit payments on your salary. So there is a 10% tax on all of your income, regardless of how much it is, then, up to the limit of like 1500 euro, about 20% that is used for maternity leave, sick days, pensions, etc.
So this means two things here. If you are under the max limit, you basically take “sick days” with a note from your doctor when you are out of PTO. This is mass practice and I’ve heard multiple of my acquaintances admitting to it.
Then there are the high-earners (basically the IT industry + medium++ business owners and CEO type of stuff) who would get as little as 1/6-1/5 of their salary if they took a sick day. So the preference is to take a normal day off.
Not sure how it is in other European countries. There is some debate about reinstating progressive taxing, but there are too many doubts that the money would get misused
Is it because people are healthier or because they couldn’t take time off, it is not specified.
I was thinking i haven’t taken a sick day ever, but i caught covid during an internship.
We love to chuck a sickie in Australia
People are discouraged from taking sick days in the United States mainly because they subtract from their vacation days unless they land a really good job with good benefits. Basically we don’t actually have separate sick leave and people want to take vacation plus we also aren’t guaranteed a minimum PTO. Only in federal jobs are you given that so anyone in the private sector which is a lot of people has no PTO guarantees and must then work multiple years sometimes some people work five years just to get a week off anyone who’s in a country who guarantees PTO please give thanks to that because that allows you to maintain assemblance of work-life balance
Australians must be really unhealthy.
We don’t have “sick leave”. My company does “permissive time off” – they don’t care as long as you’re getting work done.
In practice, they probably actually pay less for sick/vacation time – no “use it or lose it” pressure, so people forget about it. And, they don’t have to pay out accrued time when people leave.
US lower than I expected
Show me the graphics of “the most taken sick days” and I will show you normal work vs employees ethics.
In france you could have as many sick days as you want, as long as the doctor says that you need them, and the social security will pay your salary.
Still very few people abuse the system.