From "The Hooky Book: More than 200 Excuses for Rolling in Late, Skipping Out Early and Scamming a Whole Day Off" (Apiary Inc.) by Kerry Speckman Before you even think about skipping work, look at the ...

Employees are struggling with burnout, but taking time off isn’t always that easy. For its latest report on out-of-office (OOO) culture, the Harris Poll surveyed 1,170 American employees over the age ...

Would you dare muster up a scratchy throat and a fake cough, all to call up your boss and tell her you can’t make it today because you’re sick (not really) with a cold … no, the flu … wait, a fever?

Until recently, I ran a virtual content operation. Everyone on the team — a few editors and a host of freelance writers — worked from their homes. The New York City-area editors met face-to-face once ...

A new O.C. Tanner poll found that one-third of respondents admitted calling in sick when they weren't ill to get out of work. And of those who faked an out-sick call, January was the most popular ...

A husband and wife working as LIRR conductors cheated the MTA out of thousands of dollars by playing hooky and punching each other’s time clocks, MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny said Thursday.

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