1. I’ve earned it! This is by far our favorite out of all 13 good excuses to miss work for a day. Admittedly, we’ve given you some decent and believable excuses to get a day off, but this one stands ...

Now here is one of the good excuses to miss work for a week, only if you have the guts to do it. As much as employers hate listening about diarrhea or periods, what they loathe even more is discussing ...

From lost faith in the legal system to way too many dead grandmothers, employers share the strangest and most unbelievable ...

Maintaining a pristine attendance record is paramount for those in high-powered jobs where $100,000+ salaries are at stake. However, life is unpredictable, and there may come a time when even the most ...

We all know that worker who concocts fake excuses to get a day off from the office grind. But a new survey shows that there are a lot of employees who go the extra mile when it comes to getting out of ...

The raw list of major breaches in 2025 highlights the variety of root causes and the frequency with which attackers combined ...

U.S.-based searches for reasons to miss work are at a five-year high and rose 630% since 2018, according to new findings Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

CHICAGO -- Getting to work on time can be hard enough without the added obstacles imposed by car trunk thieves, gas station stick-ups and shower mishaps. Yet, these are exactly the types of incidents ...

Supporting employees in every way has always been important for a healthy workplace. But the conversation on this topic has increased in the past few years, in light of COVID-19, the “Great ...

A fresh excuse for not coming into the office is making the rounds across the Big Apple: the price of an Uber. While New York City employees have griped for more than a year about the dangers of ...

One man read an employee’s excuse for not coming to work, prompting concerns for how he manages his workers. In a viral video that has amassed over 1.7 million views and 99,600 likes, user @thecflife ...

Google searches for excuses to miss work hit over 2.2 million in 2022, up from just 112,400 in 2020. Some of the top search terms in 2022 were "calling in sick" and "best excuses to miss work." The ...