December 10, 2009
Depressing research arrives via Mrs Guru's favourite discount voucher codes website MyVoucherCodes.co.uk.
They polled 1,920 employees in the UK and revealed that the number one reason men skive off work is to spend some quality time with their games console. A quarter of the men that admitted to pulling sickies to stay at home and play videogames.
Games launch days are the time most 'men' will make the call to inform their boss they're 'too ill to work', with one in seven admitting they had no qualms calling in sick in order to play high profile releases such as Call of Duty on the day they are released.
So perhaps it's worth HR checking with absence levels go up in the week one of these new games are launched. Then, once they've returned to work, check whether the 'sick' employee has blisters on thumb and looks chronically fatigued - then you know they've been re-enacting the Battle of Stalingrad all night.
They polled 1,920 employees in the UK and revealed that the number one reason men skive off work is to spend some quality time with their games console. A quarter of the men that admitted to pulling sickies to stay at home and play videogames.
Games launch days are the time most 'men' will make the call to inform their boss they're 'too ill to work', with one in seven admitting they had no qualms calling in sick in order to play high profile releases such as Call of Duty on the day they are released.
So perhaps it's worth HR checking with absence levels go up in the week one of these new games are launched. Then, once they've returned to work, check whether the 'sick' employee has blisters on thumb and looks chronically fatigued - then you know they've been re-enacting the Battle of Stalingrad all night.
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