According to the report, these workers took the following number of sick days in recent years:

• 1,477 in 2022
• 1,075 in 2021
• 827 in 2020

About two-thirds of men (63.4 percent) and women (65.1 percent) in Canada have access to paid sick leave in 2022, according to data previously published by Statistics Canada (StatCan). And several provinces have taken steps to ensure that workers have access to paid sick leave.

Return to office leads to more requests for medical notes

Required office attendance could contribute to civil servants taking more sick days, says Manotick physician Alykhan Abdulla in the Citizen of Ottawa report.

“There is no doubt that this is much higher in magnitude than ever before,” he said. “Even back when people were coming back from COVID, there were a lot of mental health issues, but these numbers are much bigger. »