TL:DR Bosses are mad people are using all their sick days ( like it's up a fraction post COVID) especially for mental health.
So many quotes to choose but this one:
Crystal Williams, chief human resources officer at global business payments company Fleetcor, which has around 5,000 U.S. employees. She suspects early-career employees aren’t taking cues from older co-workers in the same way now that five days a week at the office is no longer the norm.
Prepandemic, Fleetcor workers in their 20s and 30s took one or two sick days a year, she says. Now, it’s more like three to five.
“The accounting team is not happy with me providing this time off, because it’s a liability for the company,” she says of the extra cost of sometimes adding staffing to ensure adequate coverage amid absences.
Link is web archive. Hat/tip to BoingBoing.net to for the link and well deserved snark: