How many days off sick have you had this year?

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Ive had 3 and I've been told that's high. I had 2 days (back to back) back in Feb due to suspected mild pnumonia. I worked from home for a week before but 2 days I could barely move let alone work.
I've had one more day recently due to a cold. I was coughing up a lot of gung and it triggered my gag reflex and I was sick so they send me home.

I work for a very small company so I think only one other person had had a sick day but so far I've had the most. It's definitely more noticeable in a small team too so I don't want to be seen as a piss taker.

So, is that a lot in the space of 6 months? How many have you had?

None in this calendar year but three last August for bacterial tonsillitis. Prior to that my last sick day was in 2015.

I haven't had a day off sick in about ten years.

It's not because I'm morally superior or harder working, it's just because I'm lucky. About fifteen years ago I was almost sacked from my job because I had bronchitis then flu in the same year and missed two weeks each time. If anyone had looked at my sickness record then they'd have had me written off as a malingerer.

Since September (academic year as in a school) I have missed 2 days.

1 day - taken to A&E from school, after being ill on arrival
1 day - sickness, due to something I had eaten

Sometimes it is less, sometimes more. I have had some years where I have missed a lot more - I missed 7 weeks due to pneumonia a few years back for example. I also have a medical condition which means I am more susceptible to picking up bugs. School are aware and very supportive anyway, though I am usually lucky in that I haven't picked anything much up in recent years.

@Fluffa what’s is the NHS reference?

0 days NHS

None.

43 The joys of hyperemesis...

None, but I had a month off last year for surgery so it's just luck so far!

I've had 3 in the last year.

All 3 for vomiting/diarrhoea..from the last 7 months. I have a nearly-toddler and am pregnant, for some reason this time round my normally cast-iron stomach has been very very sensitive.

I am NHS , the sickness in my department is awful. Never a day, let alone a week, where several people aren't off.

I had 2 days off in Jan 2018, my previous sickness before that was several years previous. The Bradford formula says yours is OK, everyone gets sick sometimes.

Our work applies the Bradford formula and TBH I think it stops people coming back too soon because multiple one day incidents are worse than one incident where you are off for several days.

I've had two days off sick in 10 years.

It's meaningless really though, because that doesn't reflect how often I've actually been sick, it just shows that I've been lucky enough during that time to be able to work from home/ flexibly if I've been feeling a bit under the weather.

The only reason I would have to take a day off sick is if I was so ill I couldn't even sit and work on my laptop in bed.

None, haven't had a sick day in years. I'm just lucky that I don't get ill often. I get a cold about once a year but not badly enough to need a sick day and I haven't had a sickness bug since I was a kid.

Not had day off sick for over 2 years, think I was off that time just one day with a migraine (hormones).

Didn’t stop them calling me in to be “spoken to” a before Christmas because I was off 2 days in one term: once because I had to take my dad to A and E and we were there the WHOLE night (thanks, wonderful NHS for not giving an 85 year old man in agony and fainting with gallstone pain a bed for the night). And I’d had to take him because my mum was in hospital with bloody leukaemia.

Second day off was when DS was ill. DH was abroad working. My mum would have usually had DS but as I say, she was on major chemo fighting leukEmia at the time

I wasn’t impressed that I was callled in and spoken to to be honest. Luckily our HR lady knows me well and knows I don’t take the piss and was only off cos I NEEDED to be. She apologised, but said she was told she had to follow absence procedure, and it also didn’t stop the cow of an office manager trying to make sure I didn’t get paid for the day I was off after being in A and E with my dad.

This is a Catholic school too.....

None. I've had one day off due to dd having a bug and needing to stay off with her.

None in 5 years.

I think this could be higher but a lot of ppl are able to cover it by working from home.
In my operational front line role- there’s no option to work from home, equally no option of flexi-time/making time up.
This year I’ve had none, last year two instances of 5 days.
Am not in an office either so any cold/flu/stomach issues make me unable to work .
My family member seems to be sick every other week and works from home on those days!! So never seems to get in trouble .

I’ve had one day off sick this academic year, had maybe two/three days the year before? As a teacher you do tend to get bugs when they go round the kids and I usually alternate chest infections/tonsillitis when run down in the winter.

I've had about 5 days off in the last 12 months, due to a nasty chest infection.
My employer allows 7 days sick over a rolling 12 month period, if you go over this you have to have a meeting. It can result in disciplinary action but they are actually pretty good.

I work in the nhs. I've had 2 days off with D&V ( have to be off for 48 hours clear) and 1 day off with a migraine. I had 1 day off in December with a migraine too (I suffer badly with migraines) I've now reached my limit for the year and will be put onto the sickness policy stage 1 if I have any more time off before December. Brill.

I have had none in 2 1/2 year. I think that is just luck.
I can't bear colleagues coming in when clearly unwell, being a martyr, spreading their illness around everyone else. If you are ill then stay at home. I am lucky that I rarely get ill. Colleagues aren't so lucky.

I've had 8... my little boy has recently started nursery and has had EVERY bug. Luckily my work are amazing and so understanding that I don't have any help locally.

For the first 17 years working I had 8 days off in total.

Then I had a bad run of a couple of years...

Developed a long term pain condition which meant taking medication that really affected me, with side effects that left me unable to work/walk/drive for 10 weeks until it was all sorted.

Had a hip operation the next year, so off for 6 weeks.

Then had 2 weeks off the next year when my Dad died.

For the last 3 years it's been back to my usual and I've not had a day off.

I haven't taken off sick, but I am able to work from home so if I have a bad cold I can get in PJs and get basics done.

In my last job I called in sick twice so that I could get client work done. (If I had gone in I would have had to see new clients rather than finish time-sensitive work for existing clients). No regrets. That place was nuts.

3 separate days 1 day I had a bad reaction to some tablets, the 2nd a heavy cold and the third this week because mum was taken in hospital through the night.

2 weeks plus phased return following a miscarriage. Before that I'd not had any sickness for over 2 years. Having a multitude of tests plus counselling and am lucky to get the time off to attend these. NHS, definitely wouldnt get the same level of understanding or support if I worked for a private company. Dh was signed of sick for 2 weeks (1 week on hospital). He's not had a day off sick for years.

3 periods of sick/4 days off. Such is life...I’m on trigger point one (NHS).
Not that the trigger points mean shit-there’s been plenty at our place of work who have been up and down the trigger points for years-if the sickness is genuine and doesn’t follow a pattern (same day each week, same time of year, just before annual leave) then it’s usually dismissed.