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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The average is always high, because long time sickness drags the statistics up.

It's not 10 people having the flu for 3.6 weeks every year. It's one person going down with stress or cancer for half a year without losing their employment.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah just seems high with Italy being at .9. Germany has 4x higher sickness? Or just Italians lose their jobs? And Romania with .1 week.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.datapulse.de/en/sick-leave-europe-comparison/

    This goes into everything about it. In short, the sick statistics actually only shows which countries are good at reporting it. The countries with the best coverage of pay obviously also report it better.

    Germany is straight in the middle of everything.

    The most interesting thing to notice is Norway. They have the highest average of sick days. They're probably not more sick than others, but because their sick days are covered 100% by the state, it's in everyone's interest to report it. And yet... despite of 19% of the workforce being sick on any given day... they're also the most productive GDP/hour.

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