Employees get sick more often

DAK analysis shows increasing number of sick leave in 2015
More sick leave in the past year: As a recent analysis of the health insurance DAK health has shown, in 2015, more workers remained at home due to illness. As a result, the sick leave increased from 3.9% to 4.1%, with the most common cause being a musculoskeletal disorder, such as Back pain was.
Every second person is missing at least once because of illness
Compared to 2014, more working people have reported sick again last year. This reports the DAK health. Accordingly, nationwide, every second employee was missing at least once due to malaise. For the published analysis, the Berlin "Iges Institute" had evaluated the data of 2.7 million gainfully employed members of DAK-Gesundheit.

Again, more workers can get sick. Image: Gina Sanders - fotolia

A quarter more respiratory diseases than last year
Workers most frequently suffered from musculoskeletal disorders such as back pain, which accounted for more than one in five days of non-exercise (21.7 percent). Second place was followed by respiratory diseases such as a cold or bronchitis (16.6 percent of absenteeism), an increase of more than a quarter compared to the previous year.
"The triggers of colds have a certain tendency to mutate and can challenge the immune system again and again. As a result, more employees fall ill in some years, "Herbert Rebscher, CEO of DAK-Gesundheit, quotes in the statement. "This results in wave movements during sick leave, but this is not dramatic," continues Rebscher.

Injuries only ranked fourth of the most common reasons
The number of days lost due to mental illness also increased by just under three percent and came in third with 16.2 percent. Injuries, on the other hand, only accounted for 11.7 percent of lost days (4th place). Overall, the sick leave, according to the information, climbed from 3.9 to 4.1 percent. The healthcare sector as well as transport, warehousing and courier services, each with 4.7 percent, were the sectors with the highest sickness rate last year. Data processing and information service workers, on the other hand, were rarely ill and thus achieved the lowest sickness rate of 2.9 percent , (No)