Are Germany's getting sicker... or lazier?

A record umber of people called in sick last year. Does this bode badly for Germany's modern work ethic?

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Dear Reader,

For the last two years, Germans have suddenly been getting a lot more sick. Or, I should say, they’ve been calling in sick a lot more often.

In 2022, the number of sick days people took shot up to around twenty two. That is over four weeks in which people were apparently lying in bed.

While that number had been slowly…