If you work with the public as I did, you are gonna catch whatever is going around, no matter what. Maybe from co-workers, maybe John Q, but you WILL get it. Often. So I went to work as long as I was not puking or had the scoots. What really got me was the co-workers who had the Monday Mumps or Friday Flu every month. You know, the ones scheduled for graveyard shift who call in at 8pm, and you can hear the party going on in the background. So someone has to work alone, with the increased workload/safety factor. As a plus, when I retired I had a years worth of sickleave on the books, and since I was retiring with an industrial disability it was all tax free. Nice little chunk of change in our pocket...