• Sick Days Not All Taken for Sickness

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“Take the employee who couldn’t come to work because of a toe stuck in a faucet. Or the employee who was upset after watching “The Hunger Games” movie. Or the one whose hair turned orange in a home dye job. ”The excuses may be funny, but business managers and productivity experts aren’t laughing. ”American workers take about 2.8 million work days of unplanned absences a year, not counting planned vacation days, holidays or personal days. And that costs billions of dollars in lost productivity. ”A 2010…report on the financial effect of employee absences said the cost of unplanned time off amounted to 5.8 percent of total payroll costs. Source: KansasCity.com

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