No Kidding

Someone actually paid money for this survey?
From the Chicago Tribune: Many workers are willing to lie about a death in the family, illness or jury duty to play hooky, according to a survey conducted by a temporary job staffing firm.
Bereavement time has been used for vacation by 26 percent of workers surveyed and jury duty by 27 percent, according to a quarterly survey conducted by Adecco Group North America.
Some 47 percent of full-time workers surveyed said they have called in sick to take a day off, the phone survey conducted in late November found.
When workers do call in sick, 72 percent of their colleagues believe they are faking it, according to the poll of 522 full-time workers.
The poll also showed men are twice as likely as women to use bereavement time and four times as likely to use jury duty as a way to take extra vacation time.  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-workers-hookybre8bl0bz-20121222,0,5084305.story