Remote school killed the snow day. Remote work and the Omicron variant may be doing the same to the sick day.
and changing standards about what severity of illness merits a sick day mean that many Covid-infected workers are powering through, muting themselves on Zoom to cough, sneeze or blow their noses as they muddle through the day.
A number of factors are driving remote employees to work through their illnesses. Some say their companies are asking them to continue working if they’re able. Others say taking sick days will put them behind on assignments or burden colleagues. Some say they don’t feel bad enough to stop working and prefer not to sit around the house with nothing to do.
Mr. Pierce said he had a fever and bad headache, followed by congestion, a sore throat and fatigue. He described it as manageable, but acknowledged struggling a bit through his work days. He didn’t miss any meetings or sales calls.not taking time off Working from home with mild symptoms won’t affect the time it takes for an individual to recover from Covid, but rest is still advised, said Dr. Frederick Davis, associate chair of emergency medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
Checking out from work feels hard, some employees said, when there are heavy workloads, obligations to clients and co-workers or a corporate culture that rewards showing up sick with a badge of honor. Before Covid, some of these workers might have received pressure to stay home fromAustin Beaulieu, a 24-year-old full-time substitute high-school teacher who lives in Trenton, N.J., decided not to use his sick days and instead worked from home when his school switched to remote learning last week.
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