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Chinese workers most likely to fake sick leave
By Yang Jian |
September 5, 2011, Monday
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CHINESE workers are the most likely in the world to skip work under the false pretense of illness according to an international survey, and experts blamed it on shorter annual vacations and higher work pressure than most of their counterparts around the world.
About 70 percent, ranking top in the world, of respondents in China said they had called in sick when they were not actually sick, according to a survey conducted by the workforce management solution company Kronos Inc.
The survey asked some 9,500 respondents in July whether they had ever called in sick when they were actually healthy.
China was followed by India with 62 percent. Over half of the workers surveyed in the United States and Canada said they had done so, with only 16 percent in France.
The survey also found China had the lowest holiday allowance of 10 days on average per year compared with 30 days in France, which extended the most leave to its workers, said Joyce Maroney, director of the Workforce Institute, a think tank under the Kronos.
He said nearly half of respondents in China suggested that more paid leave would help.
"Chinese workers are taking on great pressures with the country's rapid economic growth, but have inadequate time to relax and readjust," said Jennifer Feng, chief human resources analyst with Nasdaq-listed 51job.com.
Feng said fresh employees in China had only five days off, compared with two weeks in Europe.
People were forced to fake illness to relax because employers could never reject awarding sick leave, she added.
"Most of the time, if I did not call in sick to take a rest and continue working, I would really become sick soon," said Cat Wang, a local white-collar worker doing procurement work.
Wang said in her previous job she had to work six days a week under immense pressure with annual vocation of only five days, so sometimes even her parents would advise her to lie to gain sick leave.
"We wouldn't have had to do so if we had as much vacation as our foreign counterparts," she added.
Asked what they did on their fake sick days off, most respondents said they stayed at home watching television, or remaining in bed.
About 70 percent, ranking top in the world, of respondents in China said they had called in sick when they were not actually sick, according to a survey conducted by the workforce management solution company Kronos Inc.
The survey asked some 9,500 respondents in July whether they had ever called in sick when they were actually healthy.
China was followed by India with 62 percent. Over half of the workers surveyed in the United States and Canada said they had done so, with only 16 percent in France.
The survey also found China had the lowest holiday allowance of 10 days on average per year compared with 30 days in France, which extended the most leave to its workers, said Joyce Maroney, director of the Workforce Institute, a think tank under the Kronos.
He said nearly half of respondents in China suggested that more paid leave would help.
"Chinese workers are taking on great pressures with the country's rapid economic growth, but have inadequate time to relax and readjust," said Jennifer Feng, chief human resources analyst with Nasdaq-listed 51job.com.
Feng said fresh employees in China had only five days off, compared with two weeks in Europe.
People were forced to fake illness to relax because employers could never reject awarding sick leave, she added.
"Most of the time, if I did not call in sick to take a rest and continue working, I would really become sick soon," said Cat Wang, a local white-collar worker doing procurement work.
Wang said in her previous job she had to work six days a week under immense pressure with annual vocation of only five days, so sometimes even her parents would advise her to lie to gain sick leave.
"We wouldn't have had to do so if we had as much vacation as our foreign counterparts," she added.
Asked what they did on their fake sick days off, most respondents said they stayed at home watching television, or remaining in bed.
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