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Volume 26, Number 1—January 2020
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Paid Leave and Access to Telework as Work Attendance Determinants during Acute Respiratory Illness, United States, 2017–2018

Faruque Ahmed1Comments to Author , Sara Kim, Mary Patricia Nowalk, Jennifer P. King, Jeffrey J. VanWormer, Manjusha Gaglani, Richard K. Zimmerman, Todd Bear, Michael L. Jackson, Lisa A. Jackson, Emily Martin, Caroline Cheng, Brendan Flannery, Jessie R. Chung, and Amra Uzicanin
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (F. Ahmed, S. Kim, B. Flannery, J.R. Chung, A. Uzicanin); University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (M.P. Nowalk, R.K. Zimmerman, T. Bear); Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA (J.P. King, J.J. VanWormer); Texas A&M University, Temple, Texas, USA (M. Gaglani); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA (M.L. Jackson, L.A. Jackson); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (E. Martin, C. Cheng)

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Table 2

Work attendance during the first 3 days of illness among adults with medically attended acute respiratory illness or influenza, United States, 2017–18 influenza season*

Work attendance Mean no. days worked
Access to telework
 Paid leave benefits
Yes, n = 198 No†, n = 1,164 Yes, n = 1,074 No, n = 282
Worked 1.46‡ 1.09 1.15 1.09
Usual workplace 1.05 1.07 1.07 1.05
Teleworked
 0.41‡
 0.02
0.08
 0.04
Did not work 1.54‡ 1.91 1.85 1.91
Felt ill 0.80‡ 1.10 1.03 1.17
Day off 0.64 0.72 0.72 0.66
Other reasons 0.11 0.10 0.10 0.07

*Days worked or not worked ranged from 0 to 3 days. Boldface indicates statistical significance.
†Among 1,164 persons with no telework access (i.e., did not habitually telework), 15 persons reported that they worked from home for ≥1 d during the first 3 d of illness.
‡p<0.001.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, August 27–29, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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