Trying to explain how one can do it with a simple workplace anecdote, he said the easiest reason to bunk work is a stomach ache.
"Why do students or employees who want to take a day off use stomach ache? That's because even a doctor cannot detect a stomach ache. He has to give a medical certificate if a patient comes and says he has a stomach ache."
"An employee might have applied for leave saying he has stomach ache, while actually his uncle might have come from the village and he would have to take him around the city. Now, the boss will greet this application with scepticism. But the truth here is the employee lied because he does not think the boss will take it kindly if he had said the real reason."
"This is the boss's mistake. He should first evoke trust in the employee. That lack of trust is actually lack of growth according to me. So, how does he achieve this growth. The boss should make the employee feel that he is really trustworthy. For example this boss could ask the employee how he is feeling when he comes back. A simple question makes you instantly trustworthy. You fake it and make it.
Image: Image: Indian software professionals walk beneath a logo of Indian software giant Infosys at their campus in Bangalore. | Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images
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