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Sales and Marketing top the working wounded charts whilst Charity workers prefer to stay home.
Nearly three quarters (72%) of Brits go to work despite feeling so ill they could legitimately stay at home, a survey of Britain's working wounded shows today.
The survey by AXA PPP healthcare indicates that, in the past six months alone, two thirds (66%) of working people have gone to work when they would have been well within their rights to stay at home. And during this time more than half (53%) of respondents have not taken a single day off sick.
So why are we dragging ourselves into work when we're so unwell? In the main it's for positive reasons, with 29% of people saying they don't want to let down their colleagues.
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The survey by AXA PPP healthcare indicates that, in the past six months alone, two thirds (66%) of working people have gone to work when they would have been well within their rights to stay at home. And during this time more than half (53%) of respondents have not taken a single day off sick.
So why are we dragging ourselves into work when we're so unwell? In the main it's for positive reasons, with 29% of people saying they don't want to let down their colleagues.
Read more
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