It's summer in Australia, deepest winter in Germany... This translates to a lot of patients in the country's waiting rooms... Everyone seems to have some ailment, big or small... And the workplaces are full of people who frankly would be better off staying at home. Germans have a word for this phenomenon: "Presentisms", or the urge to attend work even when it's clearly not warranted, from a health perspective.
These people are not doing anyone a favour, experts say. Why go to work and infect others? Why don't they stay at home, until they're fit and healthy? The "Regionalmanagement Nordhessen" is trying to fight this phenomenon, with an innovative pilot project. It is training employees to become "health pilots", or "Gesundheitslotse" in German. SBS reporter Marie Berlepsch has more.
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