Perhaps I&#x27;ve just been lucky, but I&#x27;ve been working in the US for the last 15 years, and the policy at all 4 of the companies I&#x27;ve worked for has been: &quot;if you&#x27;re sick, don&#x27;t come in&quot;.<p>None of the companies I&#x27;ve worked for has set a limit on the number of days you could be sick for, nor encouraged anyone who didn&#x27;t feel healthy to come in to work.  I appreciate that some companies may do that, but I&#x27;ve never really understood how that works, given that illness is (mostly) not something you can control.