Boots claims the British workforce is left feeling cold and confused
Published January 14th, 2008
Cold sufferers deciding whether to go to work or stay at home simply can’t win according to new research from Boots. While nearly half (47 per cent) of UK workers would rather their colleagues took time off and kept their germs to themselves, another third (33 per cent) equated time taken off for a cold as skiving.
Guilt and confusion over how best to balance colleagues and cold symptoms mean that over half of workers (56 per cent) never take any time off at all to recover, potentially putting others at work at risk of infection. Furthermore, the report from Boots showed that only eight per cent of people admit to taking as much time off as they actually needed to get better.
