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Reduction in Sickness Levels during the Pandemic

Peter

Hello,

I work for 2 local authorities and we have experienced a significant reduction in sickness across both organisations since lockdown. I am keen to hear from colleagues as to what their thoughts are on the reasons for this. The obvious reason is that many employess and managers have been working from home and this potentially has masked other absences but I'm interested in possible other factors?

Many thanks,

Peter

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  • People aren't going out as much so they are picking up fewer germs?

    It would be interesting to see if things like colds, stomach bugs etc go down whilst migraines, headaches, chronic conditions stay the same and mental health and muscular-skeletal issues go up (exacerbated by lockdown working from home). Just a theory but I bet there's plenty of data out there to look at in the bigger organisations.

    As the majority of our staff have been on furlough we have had practically no sickness absence reported in the last few months.
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  • People aren't going out as much so they are picking up fewer germs?

    It would be interesting to see if things like colds, stomach bugs etc go down whilst migraines, headaches, chronic conditions stay the same and mental health and muscular-skeletal issues go up (exacerbated by lockdown working from home). Just a theory but I bet there's plenty of data out there to look at in the bigger organisations.

    As the majority of our staff have been on furlough we have had practically no sickness absence reported in the last few months.
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