Right off the bat, I am not included to blame the government for this statistic but I do find it curious. Since 1999, the absenteeism rate in New Brunswick has ballooned from 5.6% in 1999 to 8.5% in 2005. That’s a 52% increase. There hasn’t been an absenteeism rate in New Brunswick over 7% since Stats Canada began tracking this in the 1980s.
Weird, huh?
Are you skipping work to blog?
Absence rates of full-time employees
New Brunswick (%)
1999 – 5.6
2000 – 6.2
2001 – 7.8
2002 – 7.7
2003 – 7.8
2004 – 7.6
2005 – 8.5
Source: Statistics Canada