And regardless of symptoms, such as body aches or a severe cough and fever, some US employees wait an average of two days after symptoms disappear to admit they have the disease.
Experts have confirmed that the reasons for this are due to several fears among employees, including fear of deductions that may affect the monthly salary, or backlog of work, in addition to their feeling of guilt when their direct superior is unhappy at work. .
Others believe that the working atmosphere can help them get rid of a feeling of fatigue, and it is the most appropriate compared to the possibilities of being bored at home.
The survey results also showed that the average person typically falls ill twice a year, although 37% tend to ignore symptoms of illness at least once at these times.
As for healthy colleagues, they viewed what sick employees do at work in the office as a lack of sense of responsibility, with potential for transmission of infection to healthy people.
Meanwhile, doctors say taking care of one’s health is an important and top priority, even if it comes at the expense of work.
Expert in human development and leadership development, Muhammad Thaer Abdel Halim:
- Sometimes a person refuses to be treated as a patient because he does not recognize reality, so he does not listen to the advice given by doctors. In many cases, some patients, for example, do not quit smoking despite the great danger to their health.
A person hates to be in a weak position, while he aspires to be in a physical condition allowing him to perform various functions, and this is a psychological aspect.
- Sometimes an employee who comes to work while sick can be in danger, especially when infected with an infectious disease.
In some professions there is a great sense of the weight of responsibility, such as safety and medicine, so that the employee or the doctor thinks, for example, that if he does not go to work, several things can be disturbed, and many can be affected by the absence, and then the choice is patience and hard work.
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