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Any excuse is good for not going to work

- October 2005 -

Absenteeism (sic) in the U.S.: Any excuse not to go to work

The Americans, with a reputation for tireless workers, could be changing attitude judging by the polls showing a significant increase in absenteeism among them.

One of them, made by the company of internet job search Careerbuilding.com, reflected, for example, an increase in the percentage of those who claim they want to use a day "disease" about not feeling well, when is a lie.

The 43 percent of respondents said they had not gone to the office at least once in the last year with that excuse, when in 2004 the percentage was 34 percent.

The survey, conducted from 10 to Aug. 22 among 2,450 employees and 875 human resources managers, found that the most recurrent day to take a break is Wednesday, when his alibi implemented 27% of employees.

Followers on Monday, with 26%, and Friday, with 14% of workers who claimed to be sick, even at the risk of being scrutinized more closely by their commanders suspected that only wanted to extend the weekend.

In the same vein, the survey reflects that employees have sharpened the ingenuity to invent excuses downright striking, and some as outlandish as "I forgot I was getting married today."

MOTLEY EXCUSES

"My keys went down the toilet", "I hit the automatic garage door before opening", "I'm too fat for my pants fit me job", are other pretexts that bosses say they have received from their subordinates.

A clerk said the snake had escaped her boyfriend and was terrified to leave the room before he arrived, and there was another who came to rely on divine intervention.

After explaining that he did not trust alarm clocks and get up every day thanks to a divine revelation, justified his absence on the grounds that morning "God woke me."

Originality was not, however, always rewarded, and many fraudsters fared at all well, as 23% of employers said they had fired an employee for missing his job without good cause.

The cause of occupational fraud was justified in 23% of respondents with the argument that just needed to rest more, while 17 percent said they missed because they simply did not feel like going to work.

THE PROBLEM: THE EMPLOYEES DO NOT WANT YOUR HEAD POSTS

Another survey, conducted by the Company Office Team, delves into the change in attitude of many Americans toward work.

According to the company, a majority of employees do not actually want the position of their heads, which could provide light on the reluctance with which some come to the office.

According to the survey of the firm, 71% of respondents said they did not want the office of his boss, while only 26% was willing to occupy.

63% of the 972 men and women surveyed admitted that they would not do a better job than his superiors, although 30% said so.

"The top jobs can be demanding and many employees recognize it, though not always favorably valued job performance of their leaders," said Diane Domeyer, director of OfficeTeam.

The company concludes his study by asserting that the apparent disregard by employees up the ladder can, in any case, their chiefs sleep easy, knowing ue every day fewer people intend to stay with your chair.


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