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Germans... lazy?? They are now 40% more sick per year than a few years ago
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that's not true: The system when and how Germans had to call in sick had changed 2 times due COVID, which affected the numbers.
Do you suspect it is a data alignment issue causing the discrepancy? Germany is very high up compared to other countries:
https://gateway.euro.who.int/en/indicators/hfa_411-2700-absenteeism-from-work-due-to-illness-days-per-employee-per-year/#id=19398&fullGraph=true
No, during COVID Germans gained the right to call their doctor, instead of visiting, to get a certificate of incapacity, so they would not risk to infect others on the way to the doctor. This had the side effect of more sicknesses being official and registered. Previously short sicknesses went undocumented, because the employer has to pay the employee in Germany for sick leave for 7 weeks anyway and only at the 3rd day a certificate, which makes it official, is required. So people sick for only 1 or 2 days are now popping up in the statistics, even though they were likely like that all the time, but unofficially.
By data alignment I mean do you think France/Austria/others are having just as many sick days but they are not being counted?
Compared to France you were still quite high, but France does not have any data since 2018? Why? But even back in 2018 you had more than double that of France and Estonia etc
It looks like Germany and Czechia have significantly higher sick days compared to everyone else
For the downvotes: I am ok with this, I am more interested in the discussion on why Germany appears to rank so high in sick days (also Czechia as well)