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Should you go a little easier on your co-worker who comes to work sick?
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Jan 7, 2015
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Should you go a little easier on your co-worker who comes to work sick?
Have you noticed that everyone you know is sick? It seems that way anyway, especially at work with the entire hacking and nose-blowing going on. If you are one of those people who complains about how those people will make you sick, writer Daniel Engber says stop your whining.

Have you noticed that everyone you know is sick? It seems that way anyway, especially at work with the entire hacking and nose-blowing going on. If you are one of those people who complains about how those people will make you sick, writer Daniel Engber says stop your whining.

If you work in an office, you know what time of year it is. It's when sounds of coughing and sneezing mix in with the usual office chatter. And maybe when you wish your sniffling, hacking co-workers would just stay home already.

The conventional wisdom goes that those people who still come in to work when they're sick are putting their healthy colleagues at risk. Or that they're not actually being very productive anyway, and would do better to stay home and rest up.

But writer Daniel Engber argues that you should "Quit Whining About Your Sick Colleague." Engber joins Take Two to talk about the research he's found to back up the claim.