{"id":978,"date":"2007-06-04T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/mental-health-day\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T20:10:14","slug":"mental-health-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/mental-health-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental-Health Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love that turn of phrase.&nbsp; And here from Inc.com is another good example of how we have far too many surveys taking place in this country.&nbsp; From <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inc\/headlines\/~3\/121950307\/summer.html\" target=\"_blank\">When Warm Weather Arrives, More Employees Call in &#8220;Sick&#8221;:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Of 1,077 full-time employees polled, 39 percent said they&#8217;ve called in sick to take a day off in the past, and 30 percent said they planned to do so again this summer, according to the &#8220;Summer Absenteeism&#8221; survey conducted by Harris Interactive.<\/p>\n<p>Among employees who faked sick days, most said they used their time off to go to the beach or go shopping. Not surprisingly, the most popular days to skip work were Monday and Friday, the survey found. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to wanting to enjoy the weather, respondents also said they called in sick whenever they needed a mental-health day or had limited time off due to a&nbsp;demanding workload.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One third of the survey respondents have used a sick day to take a day off (I suspect the real number is far greater than 39%).&nbsp; Employees tend to do this on Monday or Friday.&nbsp; Employees tend to do this more in the summer.&nbsp; Employees justify this action as a mental-health day. <\/p>\n<p>Shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love that turn of phrase.&nbsp; And here from Inc.com is another good example of how we have far too many surveys taking place in this country.&nbsp; From When Warm Weather Arrives, More Employees Call in &#8220;Sick&#8221;: Of 1,077 full-time employees polled, 39 percent said they&#8217;ve called in sick to take a day off in the past, and 30 percent said they planned to do so again this summer, according to the &#8220;Summer Absenteeism&#8221; survey conducted by Harris Interactive. Among employees who faked sick days, most said they used their time off to go to the beach or go shopping. Not surprisingly, the most popular days to skip work were&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/mental-health-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-fM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":472,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/presenteeism\/","url_meta":{"origin":978,"position":0},"title":"Presenteeism?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sick? Your Boss Wants You to Stay Home, Survey Says. Did we really need a survey for this? I have never encountered the word presenteeism: 56 percent of employers now report that \"presenteeism,\" when sick employees show up for work, is a problem for them.Just 39 percent said that in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Team Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/team-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1245,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/news-alert-most-employees-faking-sick-days\/","url_meta":{"origin":978,"position":1},"title":"News Alert: Most Employees Faking Sick Days","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, it is a cheeky title to this post, but I recently read this Inc.com article - Big Surprise: Most Workers Faking Sick Days (see, Inc.com started it).\u00a0 In case you had any doubt: ...most workers who call in sick at the last minute aren't\u00a0really sick. ... 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I have no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Team Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/team-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1679,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/small-business-optimism\/","url_meta":{"origin":978,"position":3},"title":"Small Business Optimism","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The economy is slow right now, but to call it a recession at this point is hyperbole.\u00a0 Inc.com has a quick story on a survey of small-business owners.\u00a0 The survey sample is small, but the results are encouraging. Though many in the small-business sector remain concerned with broad economy conditions,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":992,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/challenge-your-employees\/","url_meta":{"origin":978,"position":4},"title":"Challenge Your Employees","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Inc.com reports on a Korn\/Ferry survey in Most Employees Believe They Can Outperform Their Bosses. I don't think the results are all that surprising: Seventy-three percent of executive-level employees believe they would do a better job than their current boss, according to a new survey. ... 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