According to a new research
survey, UK employees take more than 35 million sick days a year because of personal reasons rather than because they are genuinely ill.
The survey was conducted by Aon Consulting who polled more than 7,500 employees across Europe. 21% of employees from the UK who participated in the survey claimed that the last time they took a sick day, they were only pretending to be ill, while only half of those surveyed from the UK said that the last time they called in sick they were genuinely unable to work because of a physical or mental illness.
The survey also found that the UK accounts for over a quarter of the 122 million non-genuine sick days taken across Europe every year, with UK employees more than four times as likely to fake sickness in order to take time off work than employees in Denmark, which, according to the survey, has Europe’s most honest workforce.
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