How many days did you take off work due to Covid?

[Eurydice84]

Feeling a bit guilty, DH and DD (aged 2) tested positive for Covid last week. Tried to work from home, very badly with a toddler - I also had a breast biopsy last Wednesday so not much got done. I have also just tested positive for Covid now. From what I saw with DH, I am expecting to be quite ill at least for a few days with Covid. Spoke with my manager and she is very understanding, but I feel so guilty. Curious to know if workplaces are still quite understanding with Covid or not, now the rules have been relaxed.

3.5 days, but I can work from home, so I wasn't doing anything physical or having to get out of the house.
You've had a really difficult week, please don't feel guilty, you need to properly rest - being ill on top of other stresses can really take its toll on you.

I got it badly but not hospitalised. I had about 10 days not in the office, of those I did no work for about 4 days and then increasingly small bits until I built up to doing my normal hours from home. However I work part time and my DH basically did all child related/house/cooking tasks.

Adult DS’s, one took 6 days off can’t work from home and only gets 5 paid sick days . Other DS had Thursday & Friday off sick, then wfh Mon to Fri, but only did the bare minimum at first, as he wasn’t fully recovered, he doesn’t get sick pay.

None - we all got it over the Christmas holidays!

tested positive wednesday morning last week, made it through Wed WFH with paracetamol for my headache but ok Thurs & Fri, just couldn't talk for too long as it made me cough. Still going ok today which is day 6. If i'm stuck here til Friday i think the biggest issue with be boredom / motivation rather than illness!

I've had it twice, and didn't take a single day off either time (work from home). But I've been in my job 14 years and never had a single sick day ever, so I do think I must have some sort of super immune system!

I'm on my 5th day off today. Still testing positive still feeling groggy. I feel really guilty. I don't want to go in and give it to my colleague (I only have one) but I don't want her to have to do everything either

I have two jobs, but I was off 13 days. My weekend job wouldn't take me back until I was negative, just as well I had one final day of coughing and sneezing like crazy (my symptoms changed every couple of days, I think it was a way of the virus trying to make it's presence known in different ways!).

Forgot to say, in reality I wasn't really up to working until day 12 anyway.