If you’re not feeling great, do you call in sick to work, or just go in suffering? New research finds that a lot of people feel pressured to work when they’re sick, and the average American works 10 and a half days a year - about 84 hours - while feeling under the weather.
A poll of 2-thousand U.S. adults looks at how colds and allergies affect people’s work, social lives and wallets and it reveals:
- Nearly half (47%) admit they’d rather “power through” than take a sick day.
- A third of respondents (34%) feel like they have to do that because they worry others may think they’re “dramatic” when they don’t feel well.
- Close to half (48%) have had someone make a negative comment about how often they feel unwell, while 26% say they feel like they’re the person in their family or friend group who is sick most often.
- In an average year, people miss 17 social events because they don’t feel well.
- Colds, flu or other sickness is the biggest cause (40%), with allergies in a close second (33%).
- Half of those polled (49%) have yearlong or seasonal airborne allergies and the average person with them spent $207.30 in the last year to treat allergies.
- Almost a third (31%) of all respondents experience FOMO (fear of missing out) when they don’t feel well.
- And 46% of allergy sufferers say they’d consider moving to a different city if it helped make their allergies less intense or totally go away.
Source: Talker