"Calling in sick" essentially means "work ineffectively from home while miserable"

My recommendation: don't work when you're sick. Period.

@cjhowald Always listen to your body. Sometimes you can work if sick, sometimes you can't.

Depends on what you are having.

Learned that the hard way as recovery takes much longer if you don't relax and let your body recover.

@Michal78 good point. Sometimes it makes sense to work when you are recovering, but I don't think it should be the default. I see a lot of people working from home if they have the flu, or even coming to work anyway, especially in the US. Take the time you need to get better.

Full disclosure: I'm working in Germany now, where sick time is virtually unlimited and people simply don't work if they are sick.

@cjhowald Well I am from Denmark where you get paid when sick too. But I think it is a fine balance.

It should be 100% up to the employee if they are able to work or not.

There should be no pressure.

Sometimes you can get things done you are not else able to.

More often it's my boss convincing me to stop working and rest if I'm ill. -_-

@kwilliams The funniest shit is I work with a kwilliams. He does our UI design work. Half the stuff I see you post on here, I could swear he'd have posted it.

I even tried to out him, but he knows nothing of programming.