Record Numbers Not Working due to ill Health

[Saleen836]

As title, true figures or bumped up by some people playing the system?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65596283

[shih tzu faced]

Just knew it would be mental health causing all the problems, but nice to see the old skool “bad back” still putting in a good account after all these years. Usually I think it’s just a case of sticky mattress syndrome but I’m not a doctor. Lazy feckers.

[pequod]

Swinging the lead?

More worrying is the number of children not attending school...

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/national/23524391....

[Terminator X]

Saleen836 said:

As title, true figures or bumped up by some people playing the system?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65596283

Who could have seen this mental health "epidemic" coming

TX.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Terminator X said:

Saleen836 said:

As title, true figures or bumped up by some people playing the system?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65596283

Who could have seen this mental health "epidemic" coming

TX.

Has it jumped significantly now v before covid? Nothing like a newspaper making a bold claim without stats...

[Portofino]

Swinging the lead snowflakes, another thing thats come out of Covid.

[Gecko1978]

EmailAddress said:

James said:

James, 39, from Durham has been given time off work after having problems with his eyesight.

He was recently diagnosed with diabetes and says working from home has led to an unhealthy lifestyle.

"My eyesight was badly affected because blood sugar levels were so high. I couldn't really look at screens, so couldn't do work properly."

He also says it can be difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. "In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes. There are more precautions."

Eyesight, fair enough.

Diabetes... okay.

Working from home had lead to an unhealthy lifestyle... okaay.

Difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. "In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes."

Oh fk off mate. Have a word with yourself.

How do these people pay the mortgage?

how fking fat do you have to be to have sight issues from diabetes

[Downward]

EmailAddress said:

James said:

James, 39, from Durham has been given time off work after having problems with his eyesight.

He was recently diagnosed with diabetes and says working from home has led to an unhealthy lifestyle.

"My eyesight was badly affected because blood sugar levels were so high. I couldn't really look at screens, so couldn't do work properly."

He also says it can be difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. "In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes. There are more precautions."

Eyesight, fair enough.

Diabetes... okay.

Working from home had lead to an unhealthy lifestyle... okaay.

Difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. "In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes."

Oh fk off mate. Have a word with yourself.

How do these people pay the mortgage?

Lads obviously never worked Public Sector.
I’ve never had a chair set up for me in 25 years.
At home I have the luxury of desk sharing with the wife who works for a private company that provide screens, keyboards, mice ergonomic and a decent chair.
Last place we had to hot desk at a meeting table with waiting room type chairs and just our laptops to work on.

[hairykrishna]

Somebody my wife manages just got signed off for four weeks for 'low mood'. We were joking at work today that some of us grumpy fkers might never have to work again.

Some people will play the system regardless of if it's physical or mental. Always going to be hard to separate from genuinely ill people.

[Grumps.]

Gecko1978 said:

EmailAddress said:

James said:

James, 39, from Durham has been given time off work after having problems with his eyesight.

He was recently diagnosed with diabetes and says working from home has led to an unhealthy lifestyle.

"My eyesight was badly affected because blood sugar levels were so high. I couldn't really look at screens, so couldn't do work properly."

He also says it can be difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. "In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes. There are more precautions."

Eyesight, fair enough.

Diabetes... okay.

Working from home had lead to an unhealthy lifestyle... okaay.

Difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. "In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes."

Oh fk off mate. Have a word with yourself.

How do these people pay the mortgage?

how fking fat do you have to be to have sight issues from diabetes

To start with, it’s for fk all to do with weight, and second, it is normally a lifetime of high blood sugar levels that lead to failing eyesight among many other things.

[dudleybloke]

A chair!..... Luxury!

[Gecko1978]

Grumps. said:

To start with, it’s for fk all to do with weight, and second, it is normally a lifetime of high blood sugar levels that lead to failing eyesight among many other things.

would your blood sugar be high because your fit active and have a balanced diet or would it bebacause you are a lazy fat fk as the person in the artile seemed to indicate via life style comment

[dudleybloke]

I'm guessing he sits on his fat arse when he's not working too.

[Grumps.]

Gecko1978 said:

Grumps. said:

To start with, it’s for fk all to do with weight, and second, it is normally a lifetime of high blood sugar levels that lead to failing eyesight among many other things.

would your blood sugar be high because your fit active and have a balanced diet or would it bebacause you are a lazy fat fk as the person in the artile seemed to indicate via life style comment

Being fat doesn’t lead to poor eyesight.
Having consistently high blood sugars does.
You don’t have to be fat to have high blood sugars.

Alongside that, having consistently high blood sugars normally does lead to dramatic weight loss.

[GroundEffect]

Gecko1978 said:

Grumps. said:

To start with, it’s for fk all to do with weight, and second, it is normally a lifetime of high blood sugar levels that lead to failing eyesight among many other things.

would your blood sugar be high because your fit active and have a balanced diet or would it bebacause you are a lazy fat fk as the person in the artile seemed to indicate via life style comment

He could be type 1 diabetic and therefore 0% lifestyle contribution. Getting type 1 is the (un)luck of the draw.

[Rivenink]

I wonder if there is any causal link between the record numbers not working due to ill health and wages being worth less than they were 15 years ago.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Rivenink said:

I wonder if there is any causal link between the record numbers not working due to ill health and wages being worth less than they were 15 years ago.

Again where are the stats.

[irc]

Fellow I worked got early retirement due to back injury. Evidenced by regular sickness spells.

As soon as his pension was in the bank he took up a sideline in landscaping and gardening.

[Chrisgr31]

EmailAddress said:

Eyesight, fair enough.

Diabetes... okay.

Working from home had lead to an unhealthy lifestyle... okaay.

Difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. "In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes."

Oh fk off mate. Have a word with yourself.

How do these people pay the mortgage?

Obvious solution - stop people working from home!

[oddman]

Chrisgr31 said:

EmailAddress said:

Eyesight, fair enough.

Diabetes... okay.

Working from home had lead to an unhealthy lifestyle... okaay.

Difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. "In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes."

Oh fk off mate. Have a word with yourself.

How do these people pay the mortgage?

Obvious solution - stop people working from home!

Working on the basis that he is a fat knacker with T2DM and his difficulties with eyesight and posture are diet/weight related and therefore within his power to arrest progress or he could actually reverse this with targetted lifestyle measures.

I can't see why the taxpayer should be the backstop for the failure to manage his work environment or his disease.

If he's so incapable that a job sitting on his arse and looking at a screen is beyond him, putting him on the sick will see him leave the workforce until he claims his state pension if he lives that long.

There should be some responsibility for the employer and him to work together to address his health and performance issues before they both throw him onto state charity.