The morning after the night before is the main reason in Britain for employees calling in sick, a study published Wednesday showed.
One in five workers opting to stay in bed do so because of over-indulgence, according to 500 individuals surveyed by Unum insurance company. Scots are the most likely to take sick leave in this way.
"These figures reinforce well-documented and worrying trends that people's drinking habits are impacting on their workplace," said Unum's chief medical officer, Professor Michael O'Donnell.
"In 2005/06, there were 187,640 NHS hospital admissions among adults aged 16 and over with diagnosis specifically related to alcohol. This has more than doubled in the last ten years."
After a hangover, the next most frequent pretext for taking time off work on medical grounds is the desire to spend time at home making up after a domestic dispute.
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... as an American visiting London, to observe pubs packed at lunch time with business people pounding down alcoholic beverages. I'm told that the U.S. is rather puritanical (where this behavior is sort of taboo, even more now than decades ago) in not being a drinking society on par with most other industrialized countries, which includes the richest Asian nations, as well.
In old American movies (60s and earlier), one can often see executives' offices with fully stocked bars, and business people drinking in bars at lunch, but I don't think I've ever actually witnessed this in my life. Clearly some kind of shift has taken place and I wonder what is behind it.