Rise of sick note Britain: Workers are taking a record number of days off due to coughs and colds after Covid 'opened the floodgates' to an increase in illness-related absences
The number of people taking days off sick since the pandemic has steadily increased every year - after falling every year between 1995 and 2019 according to the Office for National Statistics.
United Kingdom Beverley Sunderland Institute Of Personnel Office For National Statistics Chartered Institute Jordan Platten
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