Timeline for Single parent takes many sick days
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| Apr 27, 2016 at 9:58 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Also bear in mind that the "average" (mean) might end up looking unreasonable, simply because it's unlikely to be a normal distribution. There's presumably a heavy tail of people who eventually were fired or signed off on disability after taking way too much sick leave for their employer's liking, whereas the curve on the other side cuts off at 0 since you can't take less than that. Then there's people in hospital beds all over the country, with serious injuries and illnesses, raising the average without "calling in sick" a lot. So the average days off sick might not be the right benchmark. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 9:42 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @Joe: it seems to depend who you ask. US government said 10 in 2007 (plus a further 4 caring for family members), reliableplant.com/Read/27873/US-employees-sick-days but PwC said 4.9 for 2013, cnbc.com/id/100886193. I doubt that difference represents a genuine change in only 6 years so there may be some ambiguity in what "sick leave" means, or just bad methodology in there somewhere. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 0:46 | comment | added | Amrinder Arora | Jeff said "1 day a month". That doesn't translate to "12 times per year". Someone could be down with flu and miss a week. | |
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| Apr 26, 2016 at 13:34 | history | answered | Jeff Meden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |