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Want a day off? These are the excuses bosses believe the most

Thinking of pulling a sickie tomorrow? Then the flu is the excuse bosses are most likely to believe, a new survey shows.

But the new survey asking 1,000 senior business leaders also shows that bosses can be highly suspicious about their employees’ excuses for not coming in. The research, by AXA PPP healthcare, sets out what employers think are ‘serious enough reasons’ for an employee to be absent from work.

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