By Eric B. Meyer
According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, we’re fast approaching that time of year when employees call out sick the most.
According to their annual survey, most employees stay home when sickness strikes hardest: December (20 percent), January (15 percent) and February (14 percent).
But, how often are employees who call out sick actually under the weather?
The survey indicates that 38 percent of employees have called in sick when they’re actually OK — that is, when they aren’t actually sick at all. That’s up from 28 percent who faked being sick in 2014.
What the explanation for the spike? Maybe it’s Netflix (as the survey jokingly intimates). Maybe it’s to binge-read this blog. Or maybe, employees are getting more creative with the sick-day excuses.
Here are the best bad excuses from the survey:
The national survey was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder from Aug. 12 to Sept. 2, 2015, and included a representative sample of 3,321 full-time workers and 2,326 hiring managers and human resource professionals across industries and company sizes.
What’s the best sick day excuse that one of your employees has offered to you? Email me. Or let me know in the comments down below.
This was originally published on Eric B. Meyer’s blog, The Employer Handbook.