[speaker001:] I've read your report, and I'm not sure I agree with you.You think you can get attendance improved by requiring salaried employees to take their all of their sick days?
[speaker002:] That's right. I know it must sound crazy to you, but we believe there will be fewer absences this way.
[speaker001:] We give them 10 or 15 sick days per year. Surely requiring people to take them couldn't possibly help. It sounds like a counter productive policy change to me.
[speaker002:] Right now, we have incentives encouraging employees to come to work as often as possible.But employees with colds and the flu are coming to work and infecting their colleagues.
[speaker001:] I see. So our current policies are encouraging sick people to come to work, resulting in more sick employees.
[speaker002:] That's right. If sick days were mandatory, sick people would stay home. We wouldn't have these company-wide epidemics.
[speaker001:] Let's give it a shot!