CBC

Swedish information technology workers are out sick more often than people employed in all other sectors excluding health care. A study by the insurance group Alecta, found that increased occurrences of illness is the most prevalent among highly paid females. Stress and depression were the most common reasons for Swedish people to call out sick during the first half of the year. Absences linked to burn-out have dropped compared with the same time last year. Overall, the group said the number of Swedes on sick leave for more than 90 days increased by eleven-percent year-on-year to almost seven-thousand.

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