Taking advantage of the Covid climate and wagging from work is cheating your employer, and as you expect to be paid is fraudulent. Perhaps the people that sell the positive test aka 'get out of jail cards' may end up in jail.
- Steve C
It's the Kiwi way. They don't want to work. But want to get paid. The construction industry is a good example. Lots of people paying for a house. That's left unfinished.
- Anaru B
In my workplace, not a day goes by without there being staff absences. Shifts unable to be covered. And you hear secondhand of so and so having the day off, because they have something on. Covid has nothing to do with it. Staff see it as their right to have a day off as suits.
- Anne M
Wagging from home is, unfortunately, more common than some want to believe. Most humans are ethical, but most businesses with staff (30 per cent have staff) have experienced significant drops in productivity from 'working from home'. Some staff are better from home. Many are less productive (especially with kids, and school lockdowns or holidays). And some are completely hopeless and need supervision in an office or factory setting. That's the truth. Can we handle the truth?
- Geoff N
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