Telling Porkies?

"Absence rates related to cough, cold or flu-like symptoms have increased over 8% in the UK since the widely-reported outbreak of swine flu according to an absence management firm, FirstCare" (from a database of 60,000 employees)


Now, far from me to minimise the seriousness of the current outbreak - but does this stat not say more about UK attitudes to work and current levels of worker engagement than about health scares and porcine pandemics?

No data was available as to whether things were any worse on Fry-days....

Enough...