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Germans... lazy?? They are now 40% more sick per year than a few years ago (www.euractiv.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Eyekaytee@aussie.zone to c/yurop@lemm.ee
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Germans call in sick more than 20 days per year on average, much more than workers in other EU countries.

Without the increase in sick days, the German economy could have grown by around 0.5% in 2023, instead of retracting by 0.3%, a study by pharma industry association vfa estimated last year.

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[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

We've switched to eAU (Elektronische Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung / electronic sick certificate). This was done on paper before and a lot of cases were missing in the statistics. So the increase in sick days could be explained by better / accurate statistics instead of people actually being sick more.

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