Tegan
speaker
763 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Tegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 7 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 4.
Appearances
I think you might be imagining you're coughing and you might actually be dying.
I think if you overdose even slightly on this, it can be quite bad for you.
The other one that I love, you can't see the packaging here.
It looks like something lifted out of a set of The Addams Family.
It's real gothic.
But its ingredients list is basically et cetera, which I just love.
For all that we talk about the fact that old school cough medicines had opium and codeine or all sorts of things in them, I think as much as they had those things in them, they also sometimes didn't and they didn't have anything in them at all.
Surely there is a limit to that though.
Like when you're trying to sleep at night, like there is some evidence for just a warm honey drink or a lemon and honey drink if you'd need a bit of relief, right?
Given that you have your finger on the culture pulse, as you do, Norman, I'm interested to see if you think we have a different attitude towards turning up to workplaces sick post-2020 than we did.
In researching this story, I found a couple of ABC articles from 2017, 2018, and it's quite marked how different they are to the sort of advice that they gave in 2018 compared to what we've sort of come to expect, I think, in a post-pandemic world.
It's my least favorite use of that word.
Do you have a personal kind of rule of thumb around when you think you're probably safe to be around people if you've been sick?
Actually, there was one study that looked at Korean healthcare and non-healthcare workers and showed that presenteeism, as in going to work while sick, peaked in 2014, declined sharply in 2020 and reached its lowest level in 2023.
And that was the same in healthcare workers.
In fact, healthcare workers became even less likely to show up to work while sick than non-healthcare workers, which I think is probably a signal that staying home when you're sick is a good thing.
I guess the flip side of this is that we're better at working from home than we used to be.
And so we may be getting more presenteeism or more people working through being sick because you're working from home.
There's studies that show that this is possibly the case.
And it's also something that definitely rings true for me in my networks is that the standard of sickness that kind of requires you to feel like you've got to take a day off feels very high now because you can kind of plug away from your laptop in your bed if you have to, which no one should have to do, but it's harder to take a day off than it is to just log on from home.
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