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It could be that they are taking the data from the population who take sick leave, rather than the whole working population.
So it may be that those people who take sick leave may be so ill they they need to take a long time off work, whereas those with colds "soldier" on through work without taking any sick leave.
This could then skew the figures as the figures may only be representative of people who take sick leave.
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Quoting the original post that pushed the thread in this direction:
Quote: I only know of a Norwegian study that found that office workers with their own office rooms had on an average 20 sick days a year vs 24 sick days a year for open plan offices.
Clearly it include the group "office workers" and doesn't qualify it otherwise as you suggest it might.
However,GuyThiebaut wrote: This could then skew the figures as the figures may only be representative of people who take sick leave.
Then that would apply quite well to almost everywhere else - for people do that "soldier on" thing here in the US and probably almost everywhere. Even accepting your logic, what do these people have that's so disabling? Ebola?
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If everyone was self employed i.e no work no pay I think you would see the sick days plummet - when my wife lived in Australia she tells me if someone had run out of holiday it was common practice to "chuck a sickie" - who do they think picks up the bill ?
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Am I being unreasonable here?
Nope, I also found it high. But I don't know what they actually measured and how, I have only found the abstract and didn't feel like paying for the full article.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Even 20 days sick a year sounds like a heck of a lot of sick days to me.
That's four weeks off sick a year!
Am I being unreasonable here?
No, not at all.
I have not had a sick day in years so 20 in a year is insane. Just dig a grave already, ya sissy. 
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20 day as average, means that there are some are sick for more than that... So there are some who sick for a month? (22.5 days are the working days in a month)
That sounds a huge number of days... I have years without a single sick-day...
EDIT
Just checked the numbers in Israel
* private sector - 4.1 days/year
* public sector - 16 days/year
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modified 22-Mar-21 8:20am.
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In the past 26 years of places that I've worked, sick leave is wrapped up with other days off in a PTO package. That package does not make a distinction of what those hours are used for, be it bereavement, doctor appt, home emergency, etc.
Vacation days are different in that they are usually known about ahead of time and planned for.
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Interesting anniversary. Today, Mrs. Wife and I have reached the second week after the second vaccination - sort of exciting with visits to/from the kids/grandchildren now available.
I'd been "thrown out of my office" to work from home about a month before COVID kicked in, so I don't expect any changes. Well, aside from the veiled threat to all of IT (by CIO) that we may no longer be shielded from the next round of layoffs. I suggest they think it through before acting.
My commute went from 90min each way (commuter rails) to 18min (car) to zero. I like zero.
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I got my second vaccination last Tuesday, so another week for me; my wife gets her first one tomorrow morning.
I was already working from home 3-4 days a week before Covid, so my life really changed very little - and in all honesty mostly for the better. We were already ordering groceries online for pickup, we're just ordering a lot more (and a lot healthier) now than before, and our spending at restaurants has dropped from $75-$100 a week to almost nothing. We never were big shoppers, so that's no loss. And now I don't even have to go inside the library; I can either borrow e-books to read on my various devices or request that physical books be sent to our local branch library and then pick them up using curbside delivery. I'm really hoping they'll keep that service around after everything goes back to whatever "normal" will be.
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Yup - the new normal has had a great opportunity to evolve and there is the saying/song from circ. WW I "how ya' gonna' keep 'em down on the farm . . . ? "
My place I think has plans to continue it (although they don't say as much, yet) because the own one building but the main building's rental space in Brooklyn (Manhattan became to costly) and one reason I think they sent me home in January was to make more space in their own building so they don't have to rent so much space - and now, with everyone on a VM and the test forced upon them, they discovered that working from home saves a real lot of potential rental (and associated costs). $Millions.
Our eating out hasn't changed much - but it was really take-out. Except for a period of closure, we still do Chinese takeout about once a week and G-d's gift to mankind, pizza, about once/month. We never did the grocery delivery: I saw a "shopper" in a store - unmasked &etc. and realized it's worth the risk to not take that risk - "Senior Hours" at many stores helped a lot in shortening the lines. Basically, we're minimalists to begin with and our normal shopping/storeables rabbits kept us out of the shortages by hoard of hoarding idiots.
Recreation outdoors was a few parks - mostly wide-open space. One vacation, to the Finger Lakes region of NY (at the time almost COVID free, later a hot-spot). Much of that, too, by it's nature, was wide-open scenery via hiking trails.
Only big loss was a fully planned trip to Hawaii. With good fortune we managed to get back all of the money - even the travel insurance (Worth it when booking a trip in December to be taken in June). Possibly because our plans were pre-COVID and thus we were truly blameless for having our plans screwed, everyone was merciful. An patience: I didn't jump on air-line vouchers right away but waited for the slowly rolling time frames to make the refunds of non-refundable tickets happen.
But (after my verbose interlude), I think the work-at-home will be a big part of some of the new normal. Not much help for hands-on manufacturing work but for office workers it saves them a bunch money in rental space (and utils) on one end and burning fuel to travel. Even if one is feeling a bit sick there's no danger of spread in you work from home.
What that other old saying? Something like "There's no wind so ill that it doesn't blow some good".
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True or false: perhaps dieters might eat a famous person? (9)
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Bit Celery ? anag of Celebrity where a bit is 0 or 1 (aka True or False)?
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CELEBRITY it is!
True or false BIT
perhaps (anag)
dieters might eat CELERY
a famous person?
You are up tomorrow! 
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Doh! I'd hoped I was wrong.
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I thought it might be celebrity - but had no idea how to get there!
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It's a bugger when that happens, isn't it? 
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And how it just does not work with interfaces or base classes. At least, I can't get it to work, so maybe I'm stupid.
Doing some googling, there's things like HasBaseType that have to be manually coded in the OnModelCreating method, or in the query, potentially using .Include, but really.
Why can't it just figure out what to do based on the class structure?
Maybe it's me. But I can understand why people use Dapper. 
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Personally I like to keep it simple and straightforward, i.e. 1 table => 1 class.
i.e. no hierarchy, interface, etc...
Works for me! ^_^
You could argue I am ignoring many powerful features... and you would be right! But it works out quite well for me anyway! 
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Maybe you'll get a mail someday that starts with "I have been maintaining your code for a decade now, and I really HATE you!"
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That's fine, I get a lot of positive comments, so I can look at the negative ones in a funny way!
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Quote: I have been maintaining your code for a decade now, and I really HATE you!
IMHO: If you work for a decade doing plain CRUD, without automating the process, you should probably look for a different profession …
Espen Harlinn
Senior Architect - Ulriken Consulting AS
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.Edsger W.Dijkstra
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I'm trying to implement a certain degree of abstraction, especially for REST calls, where the entities (tables) are passed in as part of the route and I want CRUD methods that are abstracted so I don't have to write unique code for each context entity.
My problem is one of laziness - I know how to do this in different ways, thought I'd see how one might do this with EF, but I'm too lazy and impatient to figure out what hoops, canyons and mountains I have to jump through, create a bridge over, or climb with enough oxygen tanks, to get it to work.
Maybe I'll google some more.
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I never used oData.. but it looks like LinQ 2 SQL code over WebAPI, could it be something that would be useful to you?
And I remembered being excited about it... but then, in some context it's doomed to obsolescence because exposing the DB is often a no-no.. But it's a god send me think for SPA or private phone apps...
Anyway, if you are curious, here is a link:
OData documentation - OData | Microsoft Docs
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Agreed. Frameworks are great if you're solving the same problem as the framework developers. If you're trying to solve something else they're a waste of time.
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