Let Your Body Go to Work

- Te Whatu Ora | Health NZ -

All in a sick day’s work: heroing a different kind of workday

‘Presenteeism.’ It’s the cultural pressure that forces many of us to head to work when we’re sick. Even though we’re less productive, and more likely to pass the sickness on. 

It’s estimated that presenteeism represents a far greater cost to businesses than sickness absence – including the ongoing reduced productivity that comes from workmates making eachother sick.

This social pressure keeps people feeling too guilty or disempowered to take a sick day. And it’s something Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora are setting out to change.

Let Your Body Go to Work introduces a new way to think about sickness. Empowering today’s workforce with the insight that resting up and getting better can sometimes be the most productive workday of all. Planting the seed that staying home isn’t a cop out – even though you’re stationary, your body’s still working incredibly hard to heal.