New numbers: Sickness reviews are declining – aside from these diagnoses | EUROtoday

Employee sick go away fell barely within the first quarter of 2026. According to a report by the Editorial Network Germany (RND), this emerges from figures from the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK). According to this, TK insured individuals have been on sick go away for a mean of 5 days from January to March of this yr; in the identical interval final yr it was 5.35 days.

Despite the chilly wave in the beginning of the yr, the chilly season was apparently milder this time, TK boss Jens Baas informed the RND. According to the report, the principle motive for the illness reviews was nonetheless diagnoses of colds reminiscent of flu, runny nostril or corona illnesses. In the primary quarter of 2026, each TK-insured worker was on sick go away for a mean of 1.32 days with a chilly analysis, and in 2025 this was 1.79 days.

However, in response to the TK knowledge, there was a renewed enhance in psychological diseases reminiscent of melancholy or anxiousness problems. An common of 0.99 days of absence per insured employee have been recorded right here, after a mean of 0.92 days in 2025 and 2024. In third place have been illnesses of the musculoskeletal system reminiscent of again ache.