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[ad_1] 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...

[ad_1] Contrary to popular perception, the nation’s WFH hotbeds are big-city neighborhoods and expensive suburbs. The mass shift to remote work during the pandemic allowed people with professional and management jobs to do them effectively from mountaintop aeries, beachfront cottages and exotic foreign locales. Mainly, though, it seems to have enabled residents of big-city neighborhoods and close-in suburbs to avoid going to offices that were in some cases within walking distance of their homes. These numbers are from the 2021 edition of the American Community Survey, a sort of mini-census that the US Census Bureau sends out to 3.5 million households each year. They come in response to the multiple-choice question, asked of household members who were already reported to have perfor...

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