Cold virus - unable to wfh for two weeks?

[WandaW]

If you had a bad cold, at the very busiest time of year in your job and when you’re fully set up to wfh and after you benefitted from lots of flexibility the previous year, would you feel okay about getting the GP to sign you off sick for two weeks?

Would you try to log onto your laptop and do a few bits and pieces to help out even if only a few hours a day? Would you agree to watch a training video at the end of the two weeks?

It depends how sick he is - though two weeks sounds like a lot. If you always get a fever with a cold and find it hard to be upright for a few days, work would be tough. If he's lost his voice he would struggle with being on the phone. Also sometimes it's not clear what you have at the beginning - you could have strep throat and think it's a sore throat related to a cold; conversely you could think you have a cough and it could turn out to be pneumonia. NHS recommendation is not to consult a doctor for a cough until you've had it three weeks, so how would you know?