#Person1#: I've read your report, and I'm not sure I agree with you. You think you can get attendance improved by requiring salaried employees to take their all of their sick days?
#Person2#: That's right. I know it must sound crazy to you, but we believe there will be fewer absences this way.
#Person1#: We give them 10 or 15 sick days per year. Surely requiring people to take them couldn't possibly help. It sounds like a counter - productive policy change to me.
#Person2#: Right now, we have incentives encouraging employees to come to work as often as possible. But employees with colds and the flu are coming to work and infecting their colleagues.
#Person1#: I see. So our current policies are encouraging sick people to come to work, resulting in more sick employees.
#Person2#: That's right. If sick days were mandatory, sick people would stay home. We wouldn't have these company-wide epidemics.
#Person1#: Let's give it a shot!
#Person2# thinks attendance can be improved by requiring sick employees stay home so that they won't infect others. #Person1# doesn't understand at first but then #Person1# decides to try it.
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