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Are you a mucus-trooper?
There is a 25 percent chance that you are a “mucus-tropper” according to TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber. A recent survey by YouGov, on behalf of the TUC, has found that 1 in 4 people went to work in January despite thinking they were too ill to do so, with the primary reason being “they did not want to let others down.”
When the timeframe is increased from “last month” to “last year” more than half of workers surveyed felt that they had gone to work when too ill to do so, compared with 12% who had stayed at home. When compared with figures from a similar study in 2004, the figures were strikingly different. Comparing with the current figures, less than half (19%) went to work ill, whilst twice as many (25%) stayed at home.
Whilst many may think that workers felt pressure from employers to attend, most stated reasons relating to colleagues, such as not wanting to let them down, or increasing work load on colleagues, as their reason for coming to work.
Commenting on the results, Brendan Barber, said: “Too often we are told that British workers are always taking bogus sickies or taking time off at the first sign of a sniffle. But the truth is that we are a nation of mucus-troopers who struggle into work even when we are too ill because we do not want to let colleagues, clients or our employer down.”
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