Volume 26, Number 1—January 2020
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Paid Leave and Access to Telework as Work Attendance Determinants during Acute Respiratory Illness, United States, 2017–2018
Table 2
Work attendance during the first 3 days of illness among adults with medically attended acute respiratory illness or influenza, United States, 2017–18 influenza season*
Work attendance | Mean no. days worked |
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Access to telework |
Paid leave benefits |
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Yes, n = 198 | No†, n = 1,164 | Yes, n = 1,074 | No, n = 282 | ||
Worked | 1.46‡ | 1.09 | 1.15 | 1.09 | |
Usual workplace | 1.05 | 1.07 | 1.07 | 1.05 | |
Teleworked |
0.41‡ |
0.02 |
0.08 |
0.04 |
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Did not work | 1.54‡ | 1.91 | 1.85 | 1.91 | |
Felt ill | 0.80‡ | 1.10 | 1.03 | 1.17 | |
Day off | 0.64 | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.66 | |
Other reasons | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.07 |
*Days worked or not worked ranged from 0 to 3 days. Boldface indicates statistical significance.
†Among 1,164 persons with no telework access (i.e., did not habitually telework), 15 persons reported that they worked from home for ≥1 d during the first 3 d of illness.
‡p<0.001.
1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, August 27–29, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.