{"id":148988,"date":"2025-01-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uae-jobs-why-are-gen-z-workers-are-taking-more-sick-leaves-career-experts-weigh-in\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T20:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:51:49","slug":"uae-jobs-why-are-gen-z-workers-are-taking-more-sick-leaves-career-experts-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uae-jobs-why-are-gen-z-workers-are-taking-more-sick-leaves-career-experts-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE jobs: Why are Gen Z workers are taking more sick leaves? Career experts weigh in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gen-z-employee-2-1000x667-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\">&#013;<br \/>\nGen Z workers are taking more sick days than previous generations \u2013 but is it really necessary?&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : arabianbusiness.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/jobs\/uae-jobs-why-are-gen-z-workers-are-taking-more-sick-leaves-career-experts-weigh-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UAE jobs: Why are Gen Z workers are taking more sick leaves? Career experts weigh in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Gen Z workers are taking more sick days than previous generations \u2013 but is it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148989,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/gen-z-employee-2-1000x667-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-CL2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":150567,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uae-jobs-why-are-gen-z-employees-micro-retiring-the-tiktok-work-trend-explained\/","url_meta":{"origin":148988,"position":0},"title":"UAE jobs: Why are Gen Z employees \u2018micro-retiring\u2019? 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