How COVID did away with sick days.

Sick days? – In my 30 years of office life, I don’t think I’ve taken more than 7 or 8 (and only because I had over 102 which seemed to be my personal barometer of when not to go in.) Having said that, I haven’t had one job were I was overtly told that I should go home and use my sick days. Usually I would get a “take care of yourself” then “are you available later to meet?”

There’s no question that the move to WFH has literally changed the game. Sick days? nah. They never really existed, and now for sure they’re gone probably forever in the U.S.

What’s been your experience?

Read more here at the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/business/covid-sick-days.html?referringSource=articleShare