A new survey has revealed that one-fifth of employees have admitted calling in sick when they were not ill in the first place.
The survey, on Management in Practice, found that over 70 per cent of the respondents said they may take a day off spontaneously, with Friday being top of the chart.
A lack of motivation was blamed for the attitude portrayed by respondents, calling into question the use of incentives and recognition.
Furthermore, 57 per cent of respondents recognised that absent colleagues affects productivity, leaving fewer people in a company to get the job done and hitting morale hard.
Unauthorised absence is a major problem every day in the UK and costs the domestic economy billions of pounds.
The survey highlights that employers ought to be considering the introduction of flexible working policies to help deal with this problem.
Productivity wouldn’t be affected, whilst employees would be happy with an improved work-life balance, improving morale and decreasing the likelihood of staff absence.
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As featured on Motivaction.co.uk.