Random Irritations

[Orikoru]

More than one explanation for that though.
Pre-Covid, if I had a streaming nose or a hacking cough I would still spend 3.5 hours of my day commuting into London to work for 8 hours and spread my viruses far and wide, as required by my employer.
Post-COVID, such behaviour is rightly seen by the general commuting and working population as massively antisocial. For some jobs, but obviously not all, this can be solved with a simple message to your line-manager: “Full of cold. May I wfh today?”
Even for the malingerers, half a day’s work done at home is better than a full day off sick, isn’t it?

Ironically, the only time my line manager didn’t tell me to wfh while ill was after I had tested positive for COVID because the policy had just changed to say that self-isolation was no longer necessary and they were worried about breaking the rules.

Yeah, it's funny how things have turned around. Twenty years ago you'd get pelters off people for having a day off with a cold. Nowadays you get pelters for going in with one! They'd much rather you were working from home and keeping your germs to yourself.

Plenty of other illnesses too that used to require a day off but don't when you can work from home - having the two-bob bits for example!

 

[RichA]

Re my bold
Yeah but Very dependant of course

If you're (they are) too ill to work then you're too ill to work
I'm not paying a full days salary for half a days work
I pay an attendance bonus every month for no sick days taken, I want everyone to earn this but not by spurious wfh days when they claim they're not well enough to come to office but then say they can easily wfh

Most contracted UK employees get paid when off sick and just get a notional tick in an “Absences” column.
I guess it depends if management feel they’d benefit most from you getting on with your work at home or ticking the box and paying you to watch TV.