It does not happen often. As a matter of fact, I cannot remember when it last happened. The alarm goes off and BOOM, you really don't feel like out of bed. So, you hit the snooze button, again . .. . again . . . again. Maybe it's because you have a minor sore throat, or you stayed up too late working on an important presentation . . . you just plain want your bed to be your office today. Well, that is me today!
I know of some people who rarely get sick but periodically take a "mental health" day . . . they finished a huge project or presentation and just need to take a break. To be honest, I was never really a big believer in mental health days, but today might have changed my mind.
Why not? Most organizations provide vacation time and sick time. What if you are extremely healthy, why shouldn't you be able to use a sick time when you need a mental break.
More organizations seem to be moving toward a "time off" policy, give you set of days that you can take off, either vacation or sick days. An interesting concept because those that are healthy can use some extra days on vacation (since year after year, their sick days go away unused). Those people who seem to get ill alot (you might know someone), they will have fewer days for true vacation. I like this "time off" approach as it places incentives in the right place. However, the downside is that people show up ill trying to keep their "time off" days for vacation. I would hope that if really ill they would stay home.
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My office has PTO, but I still see abuse. Instead of PTO being for any use, there is an unspoken understanding that PTO are just for vacations. Sick days/home repair are "working from home" days so that they do not cut into precious vacation time. So those slackers who took mental health days before to use up their sick days are still weaseling more time off then the worker bees who follow the rules of PTO.
But the bigger issue is not PTO or mental health days, it's output vs. input. And some jobs are input jobs; others are output jobs. I think that managers need to understand if they have input workers vs. output workers. Or, in some industries, busy input seasons in their business, and then manage around that.
How have you managed a group with both input and output workers?
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