Gen Z twice as likely as older workers to call out sick — even when they’re not

They’re a bunch of “sick” puppies. Gen Z workers are far more likely to fake an illness to get out of work than their elders — even when they’re fine, a new report revealed. Around 80 percent of those polled under the age of 29 admitted to calling out sick at least once during the past year — when they weren’t actually too under the weather to show up to the office. The youngest workers are roughly twice as likely as their 55+ colleagues to call out sick without actually being sick, a new report showed. Only about 40 percent of the 55-64 crowd, comprised of Gen Xers and younger Boomers, confessed to doing the same, according to research conducted by Merlin Strategy on behalf of Britain’s Centre for Social Justice (CSJ). The real reasons the junior job jilters decided to absent themselves i