Excuses, Excuses: Web Searches For Reasons to Skip Work Soar in 2022
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As calls to return to the office grow louder, workers look for ways to play hooky.
US employees are scouring the internet for excuses to miss work — just as bosses call them back to their desks.The total number of Google searches for plausible reasons to play hooky shot up over the last two years, topping 2 million in 2022, according to an analysis by Frank Recruitment Group, a global employment firm. In 2018, that figure was a little over 300,000. The firm analyzed traffic across 10 of the most popular search terms, including multiple variations of “realistic excuses for missing work.” Some of the top results? Illness, family or home emergencies, doctor's appointment and car trouble. This surge comes as executives express concern about quiet quitting and faltering productivity...