52% of Canadians have played hooky from work

Only 52%?

That was my initial thought as well!

In unrelated news, 48% of Canadians are pathological liars.

The reason why Europe is so low on that list? 25 paid vacation days, 13 ATV-days (paid) (that's for people who still work 40 hours a week, instead of 38), and sick days except for the first one are paid too.

I would imagine that there are a few people out there that have never called in sick when they really weren't or given some other excuse to miss work but 48% seems pretty high to me.

The one thing that really sucks about skipping work now a days is that with cell phones and things like remote desktop you never really get away from it anyways.

I don't play hooky. Don't have to when you can set your own attendance.

I was about to say that I set my own work schedule too but really when I look at it it's the other way around. My work sets the schedule for the rest of my life. Kind of a depressing realization for a Saturday morning

I would imagine that there are a few people out there that have never called in sick when they really weren't or given some other excuse to miss work but 48% seems pretty high to me.

The one thing that really sucks about skipping work now a days is that with cell phones and things like remote desktop you never really get away from it anyways.
Sad but true. Even on my days off it isn't unusual to get a call from work. When I see the call display I go through that brief debate... answer it, ignore it... yikes! They found me anyway! lol...