It's fun to read your much more sophisticated analysis. As to the excellent question of what utility my study has, the truth is that I didn't expect any. I didn't look at the data thinking I had a problem to solve, or that there were people abusing our sick time policy. I was just curious.
We averaged about 2.5 sick days / employee / year over the last 12 months. That's quite a bit lower than some reports I've read. It also happens to be exactly the number I picked 10 years ago when I was first making an economic model of my company.
We averaged about 2.5 sick days / employee / year over the last 12 months. That's quite a bit lower than some reports I've read. It also happens to be exactly the number I picked 10 years ago when I was first making an economic model of my company.