Are hangover days inclusive enough?

You’ve woken up with a fuzzy head, a dry throat and sleepier than you ever thought possible, with the added regret that you shouldn’t have headed out for a few wines after work last night.

But then you remember, you don’t have to go into work with this stonking hangover as your employer offers a work perk that would likely have been unheard of ten years prior.

We’re talking about hangover days, a benefit some businesses have introduced in a bid to improve productivity among workers. One company that hit headlines over this very initiative last year was the London-based ticketing firm Dice who allows its employees to call in sick if they had one too many the night before. Of course, as with any work benefit, there are rules. For example, employees are only allowed to use these days four times a year which also has to be work-related. Therefore, if an employee’s Tinder date didn’t go to plan and resulted in them drowning their sorrows, they wouldn’t be able to use the work perk the next day.

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According to the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS), as many as 89,000 people may be turning up to work hungover or under the influence of alcohol every day, which costs the economy £1.4billion a year. These findings came from an IAS study of 3,400 British workers, with 42% confessing to coming into work hungover, with nine per cent having already done so in the past six months.