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Though I am happy to mark option C as my answer but I am not able to eliminate option A
As per My understanding argument mentions that employees can take leave if they are going to doctor when feelin sick and if employees take leaves then productivity will definitely would be less.
According to option (A) people are visiting doctors more frequently this year then they were visiting doctors previous year. So if frequency is more then definitely the leaves taken would be more, resulting in less productivity. Moreover there could be cases of fake doctor visits that employees are doing just to take leaves.
As per My understanding argument mentions that employees can take leave if they are going to doctor when feelin sick and if employees take leaves then productivity will definitely would be less.
According to option (A) people are visiting doctors more frequently this year then they were visiting doctors previous year. So if frequency is more then definitely the leaves taken would be more, resulting in less productivity. Moreover there could be cases of fake doctor visits that employees are doing just to take leaves.
07 Feb 2023, 22:17
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Harley1980
Aim: Reduce loss from sick days.
Plan: Employees must come to work until and unless they are very sick and need to go to the doctor.
Result: Losses from sick days actually increased.
We expected the losses to reduce but because of this plan, they actually increased. We need to resolve this paradox. We need to give why the losses showed the opposite effect.
(A) Alter the policy was implemented. employees more frequently went to the doctor when they felt sick
This doesn't explain why the losses due to sick days increased instead of decreasing. This could explain why the loss stayed the same or reduced very little.
When people got sick before, they took leave. In some cases, they went to the doctor because they were very sick. The policy requires the sick people to come to office while the very sick can take a leave. After the policy if sick people start going to the doctor too (so that they can take a leave), it could be a reason why we may not see much reduction in sick leaves. But why would we see an increase, this option doesn't explain.
(B) Before the policy was implemented, employees who were not sick at all often called in sick
If this doesn't happen anymore, then we should see the plan succeeding. Doesn't explain why the plan backfired.
(C) Employees coming into work when sick often infect many of their coworkers
Correct. This explains why the plan backfired. When sick people come in to work after policy implementation, they were infecting other people also. So many people were falling sick every time someone was sick. Then out of these many people, some would have required a doctor and taken leave. So instead of that one person who was sick who should have taken a leave, now more people needed to take leaves. Hence, the losses due to sick days increased.
(D) Unusually few employees became genuinely sick during the year after the policy was implemented
Then the plan should have succeeded. Doesn't explain why the plan backfired.
(E) There are many other factors besides employee illness that can adversely affect productivity
Other factors are irrelevant. We are only discussing productivity losses due to sick days.
Answer (C)
10 Apr 2023, 22:00
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MukuDawra
Here's (A).
(A) Alter the policy was implemented. employees more frequently went to the doctor when they felt sick
Notice that this choice is about what employees did "when they felt sick." AFTER the policy was implemented, employees went to the doctor "when they felt sick."
So, what did they do BEFORE the policy was implemented? Presumably, before the policy was implemented, employees who felt sick and didn't want to work just CALLED IN SICK.
Thus, these additional employees who went to the doctor would not have come into work anyway before the policy was implemented. Before or after the policy was implemented, they would have called in sick. The only difference is that, after the policy was implemented they also went to the doctor.
We see that choice (A) does not explain an increase in productivity losses because the only change involved in (A) is a change in going to the doctor, not a change in the number of times employees called in sick.
06 Aug 2024, 07:41
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GMATNinja
Hi GMATNinja,
I am confused between Options A and C, please explain the error in my logic.
The passage explicitly says (1st sentence) that the company was only concerned with productivity losses resulting from employees calling in sick and not from anything else.
So option C, just says that sick employees, by being present in the office, are just infecting the others. We do not know how many visited a doctor and called in sick. So as long as they are in the office, productivity is not affected.
Option A talks about employees utilizing the one loophole about "being absent only if you are sick enough to consult a doctor". The doctor visits increase but again, here we do not know how many took leave and how many decided to come back to the office.
What is the flaw in my explanation?
Thanks in advance.
