ONS says rate fell from 1.9% to 1.8% as people worked from home, the lowest since records began in 1995

Coronavirus presented the whole country with a sicknote in 2020, yet workplace absences due to illness fell during the year, official figures reveal, as pandemic restrictions helped some workers dodge their colleagues’ coughs and colds.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the UK’s sickness absence rate declined from 1.9% to 1.8% last year – the lowest level since its records began in 1995, when the rate was 3.1%.

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