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title: "Workplace"
url: https://call-in-sick.com/category-workplace
description: "Entries on how organisations arrange cover, record absence and talk about it."
published: 2026-09-06
updated: 2026-09-06
---

# Workplace

Published 2026-09-06

Entries on how organisations arrange cover, record absence and talk about it. 5 entries

### Tuesday11 August 2020

#### [The language of calling in sick](https://call-in-sick.com/the-language-of-calling-in-sick)

Almost nobody says what a policy expects them to say. The formal instruction is usually some version of notify your manager before the start of your shift and state that you are unfit to attend.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Workplace](https://call-in-sick.com/category-workplace) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/the-language-of-calling-in-sick)

### Wednesday29 July 2020

#### [Presenteeism and the half-worked day](https://call-in-sick.com/presenteeism-and-the-half-worked-day)

Presenteeism is the word for being at work while unfit to do it, and it is the mirror image of the problem most absence policies were written to solve.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Workplace](https://call-in-sick.com/category-workplace) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/presenteeism-and-the-half-worked-day)

### Monday8 June 2020

#### [How workplaces record absence](https://call-in-sick.com/how-workplaces-record-absence)

Absence recording looks like clerical work and behaves like policy.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Workplace](https://call-in-sick.com/category-workplace) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/how-workplaces-record-absence)

### Monday6 April 2020

#### [Shift work and the cost of cover](https://call-in-sick.com/shift-work-and-the-cost-of-cover)

In salaried office work, a single absence is usually a delay.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Workplace](https://call-in-sick.com/category-workplace) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/shift-work-and-the-cost-of-cover)

### Tuesday17 March 2020

#### [Remote work and the disappearing sick day](https://call-in-sick.com/remote-work-and-the-disappearing-sick-day)

Working from home removes the most reliable signal a workplace ever had about illness: the empty chair.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Workplace](https://call-in-sick.com/category-workplace) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/remote-work-and-the-disappearing-sick-day)