Being sick is bad enough, but employees in the U.S. feel so guilty about taking time off from work to recuperate that they often work through illness. Not all workers in the U.S. are entitled to paid ...

Starting next week, Starbucks workers will no longer have access to expanded paid sick leave that the company rolled out for COVID-19 illness, isolation, and vaccination. Going forward, employees will ...

When you feel miserable, it’s hard to craft the perfect sick-day email. We’ve done the hard part for you, so all you have to do is copy, paste and fill in the blanks! Your head is throbbing, your ...

A person may always feel nauseous due to a lack of sleep, poor diet, anxiety, or stress. These factors can make a person more susceptible to infection and illness. However, always feeling sick can ...

Amanda MacMillan is a health and science writer and editor. Her work appears across brands like Health, Prevention, SELF, O Magazine, Travel + Leisure, Time Out New York, and National Geographic's The ...

Does it seem like you keep getting sick every few weeks? Or like you catch every cold that goes around while your friends are always spared? If so, you might not be imagining it. While some people ...

Everyone gets sick at some point. Whether it's a miserable head cold or the full-blown flu, there are times when going to work feels almost impossible, not to mention, rude to your co-workers who ...

The choice between the two words is one of those little things that stand out if someone picks a different one than the one you’re accustomed to. It’s the sort of question that nags at you, too, which ...

Staying home to avoid catching and spreading the coronavirus during the pandemic, for all the fear and anxiety it has caused, has come with one unexpected benefit for my family: My kids haven’t been ...

As freight railroad workers look to Congress to provide them with paid sick days, millions of other American employees have no safety net if they fall ill. The US does not have a national standard on ...

Coming to work while sick can take out a workforce. So here’s how to tell your boss you need time off to recover. The number of sick days taken by UK workers has almost halved since 1993, according to ...