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Tag: National Sickie Day

Fake illness costs UK businesses £5.6bn a year

February 3, 2020

By Laura McGuire

Over half of UK employees have “faked” a sick day, however, a startling number of younger workers are coming into work when they are unwell.

Hilarious responses to National Sickie Day excuses

February 4, 2018

By Shane Schutte

February 5th marks National Sickie Day and to celebrate it, Citation’s HR and law employment team sought to find the silliest excuses bosses were given.

Ten terrible sick day excuses employees have used on their bosses

February 6, 2017

By Zen Terrelonge

A fifth of Brits come out with crazy stories for being absent from work, so we ve got the ten most terrible sick day excuses bosses have been fed.

National Sickie Day: Managing the stress of missing workers

January 31, 2017

By Staff writer

Monday 6 February has been dubbed “National Sickie Day”” the most popular day in the year for UK employees to be reliably unreliable and phone their bosses to say they won’t be in.

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