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Calling in Healthy instead of Sick

Roel Timmermans
2 min readMar 1, 2024

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What if…

We could call in healthy?

We call in sick all the time right, then we spend our day at home not feeling all to well. Just recovering.

Recovering, as in solving a problem instead of preventing it from ever happening.

So what if we would do the opposite?

Prevention vs. treatment / recovery

What if companies would give their people some health days? Not having to give any long extensive reasoning way in advance, but just some days where people can say: “Nah, today I’m gonna enjoy myself”

Whatapp message of someone calling in healthy and not coming to work.
Image by Roel Timmermans

It could work miracles.

Energy management instead of time management

The idea is that we should not be going to work simply for the sake of delivering output, it should be about outcome (impact actually).

And to get there it’s also about making sure people can be their best selves. We we all know, that’s not consistent over 5 timeslots of 8 hours.

So creating that space to energize, build some positive ad-hoc memories, should do magic for the energy levels.

Add in some reciprocity (check out Cialdini if you want more on that concept) and you’re ready to 🚀

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Roel Timmermans
Roel Timmermans

Written by Roel Timmermans

Driver of Human 1st Culture in Brand Marketing.

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