{"id":5951,"date":"2026-08-25T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:10:00","slug":"bosses-are-convinced-gen-z-fakes-wi-fi-outages-and-sick-days-to-sneak-off-in-summer-but-1-in-2-senior-managers-are-guilty-of-the-same-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5951","title":{"rendered":"Bosses are convinced Gen Z fakes Wi-Fi outages and sick days to sneak off in summer\u2014but 1 in 2 senior managers are guilty of the same thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>New research has found that productivity really does dip over the peak summer months\u2014and that\u2019s because workers, from the front line to corporate management, are ditching their desks to enjoy the warm weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5949\">What Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei can learn from the airline industry\u2019s painful lesson about marketing and the concept of safety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The software company PDFFly surveyed 2000 managers and senior managers and found that while 85% of managers suspect their employees are making fake excuses to grab extra time off in the summer, half of management are doing exactly that themselves.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And the fake excuses are almost identical whether you\u2019re an entry-level worker or the boss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Managers say they think their employees are pretending their Wi-Fi is down, pulling a bogus dental or doctor\u2019s appointment, or even a \u201csick\u201d day, just to grab extra time off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet when asked about the excuses they\u2019re using to shut their laptops and enjoy a day out in the sunshine, managers admitted they\u2019re guilty of fake \u201csick\u201d days, followed by an exaggerated family obligation, a fake appointment, or a fake tech issue. Shockingly, nearly 10% aren\u2019t even making up excuses, opting instead to log on and do no work.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ultimately, it doesn\u2019t really matter who is at it. But the bottom line is being impacted: Six in 10 managers have admitted output drops in summer\u201418% say \u201csignificantly,\u201d 42% say \u201cslightly,\u201d and 37% say that they see more than a 10% dip in productivity. In fact, a third say it\u2019s gotten so bad that the company lost a client or missed a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5947\">A climate novel imagined a heat wave killing 20 million people\u2014scientists say an \u2018extreme of extremes\u2019 is no longer fiction<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>4 in 10 millennials take a quiet vacation\u2014others are taking paid medical leave<\/h2>\n<p>Managers aren\u2019t the only ones getting creative to take more time off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nearly 4 in 10 millennials admit to \u201cquiet vacationing\u201d\u2014secretly taking time off and going on holiday without ever telling their boss. They bring their work phone to the beach and check in every so often just to avoid getting caught. A separate study from Resume Builder found that 43% of quiet vacationers sneak off for up to three days at a time, while a quarter take the entire week off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Others have taken things even further, using medical leave to get up to 12 weeks off, job-protected and, for some, even paid.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While some are boasting about abusing the system for bonus PTO days, many are struggling\u2014one TikToker said taking that time off to work on her mental health, without the risk of being terminated, was \u201clife-saving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the researchers behind the \u201cquiet vacationing\u201d study said the trend isn\u2019t laziness, but anxiety: two in five workers admitted they\u2019re scared that asking for time off will hurt their standing at work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In both cases\u2014medical leave and secret vacations\u2014a common thread runs beneath the mischief: people aren\u2019t sneaking off because the work\u2019s too easy. They\u2019re sneaking off because they don\u2019t feel safe asking for a break honestly.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5945\">Here\u2019s how much the $40 trillion national debt is costing you \u2014 whether you have student loans, a mortgage or Social Security<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has found that even senior have been calling in sick and sneaking out of work to enjoy the warm weather this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work-life-balance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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