One entrepreneur reveals his list of the most bizarre employee excuses for not making it into work.
Some 350,000 British employees were estimated to have called in sick to work on 1 February, the day dubbed by experts as National Sickie Day. The mass absence was expected to have cost businesses around £30m in lost revenue and productivity.
The day coincided with research by the Employment Law Advisory Service (ELAS) which found 25% of employers accept emails or text messages from staff to say they are ill, instead of the traditional phone call, making it easier for employees to fake it.
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