Sick? Don't soldier on at work, stay home!

Hacking coughs and runny noses are doing the rounds of businesses across the country right now. Annually New Zealand loses about 1.5 billion dollars every year to absences, according to a 2017 study conducted by Business New Zealand and Southern Cross Healthcare. But the impact of going to work with a cold - or presenteeism, as it's dubbed - could be even higher.