Comment on Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace

jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not even that.

  In an office setting sick days literally help productivity, because metrics and workload should account for employee’s work hours.

  If someone’s on leave for a day, theyre taken out of production numbers.

  If they “tough it out” then production numbers say they should produce a normal days workload.

  You end up looking worse encouraging a work culture where people don’t take days off.

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  • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t agree with measuring productivity that way. Coworker recently had covid, but they still worked from home. Granted, they put in maybe half the hours they would normally. But, boss was good with it as the alternative was zero work done at all. They still got some work done without burning any sick days.

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    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah that doesn’t work for kitchen staff.

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Count your blessings. I’ve been sick enough to mute my work call while vomiting. (They needed me that day, and mostly I just needed to be on that call.)

        But I’ve absolutely had days where I couldn’t get far out of bed.

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If someone’s on leave for a day, theyre taken out of production numbers.

    Ha! Good one

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• Nommer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got a bad cold or something one time. I spent 2 weeks working from home then the boss told me to go to a doctor. Went and they found nothing so I had to come in. 1.5 weeks later I was over it but not before the rest of the office got pissed at me for getting them sick. I just told them I was forced to come in.

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• WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the problem with Gen Z: they don’t want to SHARE

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  • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    GEN Z IS KILLING WORKING YOURSELF TO DEATH

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• zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not so much the argument it’s workplace policies that say 6 or more days a year means you can be fired with cause. A late clock-in counts as half of one of those.

  At least that’s been standard at most places I’ve worked.

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  • Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Brutal. There is a world beyond the American dystopia, you know.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And I’ve learned it doesn’t want us unless we wanna be nomads or we really have something amazing to offer.

      (Maybe I’m setting the bar too high looking into Scandanavia lol)

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You need a new career, yikes

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  • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s rough. Not even my shittier jobs have had that policy

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• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  2020 taught people nothing.

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