There's been so much in the papers recently about the ways companies are trying to lessen the amount of sick days they "lose" during a year.

The latest scheme is being arranged by a council by having a registered nurse take your sick call in the morning. Presumably this is to assess whether you are really worthy of a day in bed, or trying to fake illness (cue people probably reaching for health books to get symptoms right )

This certainly wouldn't deter me from calling in sick if I felt it necessary. Yet whenever I have needed to call in sick I get a cold shoulder effect and almost a disbelief as if I'm pulling a fast one . Unfortunately, I know my work will still end up on my desk so there would be no advantage to pulling a sickie and playing catch-up so there have been various stupid times I've crawled in with a headache for example and still not been acknowledged that I probably would have been better off at home

I was intrigued at what may prevent other people from just having that one day off sick when you really need it?

My workplace doesn't run any type of bonus scheme, I guess because we are quite a small office it's deemed pointless. But I did wonder if anyone is in a company with specific ideas in place to counteract all these new "figures" that seem to pop up every now and then.