Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
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.