I've been retired for some years now so I am not up to date on current sick leave policy and thinking. That said, during my working career I can count on one hand how times I had to take time off because I felt like crap after catching a bug. It wasn't for 14 days or even 5 days as suggested in the article. The worst bug I've had I cleared in about 3 days..
But how many times did you get sick and “battle through”? And how many did you spread it too? How many of them took sick days? How many people did they make sick? And how much better would everybody have been if the person who gave it to you had stayed the hell home and kept their germs to themselves?