Are you a mucus trooper, a stoic, a model patient, a walking epidemic or a shirker? As a new poll finds that three in four staff have been to work when ill, the TUC has published new advice on sickness at work and a quiz that finds out what category you fall into on its world of work website, workSMART.org.uk. The TUC poll finds that as many as one in five say they have been to work when too ill in the last month alone, and nearly half say they have in the last year. As sickness absence at work last year was the lowest since CBI surveys began and fell six per cent from the previous year (Risks 104 ). The TUC says that too many people may now be going to work when they would be better off recovering at home, rather than infecting their colleagues. 'We are not the nation of malingerers that some paint,' says TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, 'in fact we struggle into work even when we are too ill to do so because we don't want to let people down. It's all part of our long hours culture. Indeed long hours, stress and increasing workloads make people sick.' The workSMART website provides advice on issues including sicknotes, sickpay and sickness absence policies.