AIBU to take a sick day when I work from home?

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I work from home full time and usually work through any illnesses. I have severe/brittle asthma and had an asthma attack last night - attended an and e at tea time and home in time for bed with steroids. Had a nebuliser twice while there.

I haven’t slept at all - been coughing and wheezing all night and I feel exhausted (anyone with asthma will understand that you can feel bone tired as you aren’t getting enough oxygen).

Would I be unreasonable to take today off? I wouldn’t usually second guess myself but a friend text me and I replied saying I won’t be online today, and why. Had a rant back about lazy people who wfh (she doesn’t). AIBU?

It doesnt matter where you work. If you need a sick day, you take a sick day.

You need time to rest and recover. And Id be re thinking that friendship!

If you are ill you aren’t going to be productive for work nor are you going to recover if your focus is on work.

Absolutely take a sick day and ditch the 'friend'.

WFH doesn't mean you are never too ill to work.

Your friend is a good little worker bee isn't she. I judge people like her far more harshly than people who take a sick day. Of course you're too ill to work.

Your friend sounds lovely 🙄

Take the day off, you're sick

I would take the rest of the week off!

DS is asthmatic and started a 5 day course of pred yesterday. He is in year 11 but I have told school he will hopefully be back on Monday. If he feels up to it he will do some bits of work in a few days but mainly he will be recovering.

Of course YANBU. WFH means often you can work through colds and what not but of course there are some illness where you just need to sleep!

We tell our staff who hybrid work that if you are ill we expect you to take the day off and recover.

If they are well enough to work but not be in the office eg they feel fine but have diarrhoea or a headache that means they need to work in the dark then if they can do they can work through the illness at home.

If you've been to A&E during the night you are not well enough to be at work anywhere.

I hope you feel better soon.

Bad friend. Of course YANBU.

Please take the time you need to get better, whether that's one day or a few

Too many people pretend to work when they are unwell. You are being genuine and honest which says more about her for doubting you.

Depends on the illness, what you describe is something to be off sick for regardless.

I don’t WFH but even I think if you’re too sick to work, you’re too sick to work! Don’t feel bad

You can't work today. It doesn't matter what your job is.

The calibration for a sick day when you WFH might be different but of course you can still be too ill to work.

Someone office based might take a sick day because they are too ill to drive, whereas a WFH colleague in the same condition might manage to drag themselves to their desk to log on.

But if you are too ill to sit at your desk and function properly then of course you put yourself to bed and take a sick day.

Thanks all! I was a bit shocked - she calls me ‘sickly’ because of my asthma, which annoys me too. I feel genuinely exhausted and I agree I wont be productive

i clicked the wrong answer - YANBU. I wfh full time and take sick days when needed, our employer expects us to.

If you are sick, you are sick and should it be working.

your ‘friend’ is an arsehole

Thanks. Hope he recovers soon. This cold and damp weather we have had is lethal for people with asthma

Absolutely this

The clue is in the title “work” from home.

You aren’t well enough to work. Regardless of the location of that work.

I’m sorry you’ve been through a rough night with your asthma - I think people underestimate the toll of your body as well as the mental trauma of not being able to breathe properly.

YA absolutely NBU.

Het your duvet and a decent box set, take the steroids and spend a day using as little oxygen as you can whilst you don’t have enough in your bloodstream.

our line manager tells us that if we are too sick to work in the office, we are too sick to work from home.
so no, yanbu.

The whole team I’m in WFH and if any are unwell, they take time off.

I’ve had a heavy cold and chest infection for over a week and have worked, because I’ve not felt ill enough not to. I’ve got a chronic pain condition and have taken time off when that’s flared up.

Take time off and I seriously would be messaging the “friend” back and telling her to fuck off and not contact me again.

Wait just noticed you said your friend calls you sickly and ranted to you about lazy wfh people - why are you friends with her x

I actually once had to discipline for someone taking WFH days when they were sick. That sort of stuff masks sickness lwvles and means you get a half productive emoplyee. WFH employees need to be fully present and fit. If you are sick you are sick, no matter where your place of work is.