I tend to go to work unless very ill. I own my own business so I am responsible and if I want to keep clients, I need to perform

Regardless, I am not staying home with the sniffles. On the other hand, if I have full blown flu, I am neither sharing that nor in any shape to perform.

Yes. The main reason is that if I cant go to work then the whole office has to shut down (I'm a dentist, and by law noone can treat patients unless I am in the office). So a good number of patients would have to change their appointments, and a lot of them have taken off from work to come to the office. Also, if I call in sick all the employees still get paid, and all the overhead goes on without any income.
So, unless I am too sick to do good work, I will go in! It works out that I average about 1 day a year off due to sickness.

I work when I'm sick because I work from home and because I work on a very small team so we really need all hands on deck all the time.

I have missed one lecture in 18 years of being a professor, and had never missed a day of school or work prior to that. I was sick often. Going to work takes my mind off my illness, and usually helps cure the illness.

There is nothing I would rather do than the work that I do.

Although I don't have work, I do go to school when I am sick unless my fever is above 103 degrees F or I'm barfing my guts out. It's just way too much hassle to miss so much. So many things are assigned each day I can't afford to miss.
I did miss one day this year due to illness. I toughed it out the day before and was picked up at the end of Science Olympiad with cold sweats and the tears rolling down. I had a fever of 104 and stayed home the next day. Never went in to the doctor to see what was wrong.
I'm currently sick with a cold, but as I've stated before, I'd have to be barfing my guts out to stay home. :)

Yes. I have a family business and I hate to leave it short handed. Also, daytime TV is mind numbing.

I have worked 54 years in a small family business and except for 6 (yes six ) hip surgeries and a kidney removal I have not missed any work. I love what I do and have no plans to retire. I am 69 and I have the false idea that my business will not run without me.

in 10 years of running our family business, we were only closed for half a day due to illness. Both my husband and I contracted the Norovirus... most likely from one of our customers.

I think the last time I was sick enough not to go to work was in about 1978. I have had elective surgery since then but chose a time when it did not negatively affect my clients.

Though retired at this time, I managed a store for the Pa. Liquor Control Board. I was lucky to have only minor sniffles but major sinus headaches, but I worked through it, the employees under me and the customers took my mind off myself. The only time lost was for two surgureys. Only in retirement did all that catch up with me.

I need the money!

This comes under the category of: Think globally.
If you have a co-worker who is going through chemotherapy and you have a contagious condition, please stay home until you are no longer contagious.
Otherwise, cover your mouth and wash your hands frequently and you can be at work IF you can function normally.

Yeah, I work from home and only have annual leave, not 'sick leave'.

Not sick very often but I do go in and wear a mask if needed. As a pediatrician, the schedule is not easy to adjust or for rounds newborns do not exactly schedule themselves...Luckily rarely if ever sick probably from overexposure to viruses

If I can function (mentally and/or physically), and if I won't risk getting others sick, I'll go in. On the other hand, if I would get others sick (thereby putting the whole office down) then no, I'll sacrifice my time so the mission keeps getting accomplished. Personally - I get so bored doing nothing I can't wait to get back when I am off. I HAVE been so sick my boss has sent me home - but usually it's after a long argument why I shouldn't be off, that work has to be done...

Yet, there are many where I work of the following camp (some I have had the honor of being able to terminate...):

"Being a good civil servant, and as one who unashamedly takes their unearned graft from what the government loots from the people and wheedles through government subsidies and contracts, I take off as much paid time, sick or not, as I can. It's because I deserve to get every unearned dime from the suckers who employ me, if I could sue them to get even more money for doing even less, I would. Because you owe me, and I got my eyes on the prize."

Yes, I work when sick.
My job has little interaction with other people, so me being sick is not risking the health of anyone else.

When I was the sole proprietor of a struggling business, there was no question that unless I was on the verge of total immobility, I'd go into work. In my entire working career that only happened once, for one day with a case of spewing flu.It took me a while to get used to retirement. I finally came to the conclusion that it was my brain, not my rickety body that was making me miserable. Pain I could deal with, but boredom, never. So, I got my brain in gear and piled on as many activities for it as possible, one of which is "gulching."

When I'm sick, I'm not productive, so, no, I stay home.

If it's not debilitating, then I go it. If it is, I can work remotely. My customers count on us. They never knew that I was in a hospital a few years ago for a week in a cardiac care room.

When I was a young man, I used to go no matter what. I'm sure I hosed some other people in doing so, an prolonged my cold. I can't think of an ailment besides a cold/flu I've stayed home for, except surgery recovery.

At some point I took a work friends recommendation to "burn off" a cold, by getting in bed, under a pile of blankets, and get hot to exacerbate your fever. That works, so i do it when I feel one coming on.

Since I can work at home often, it is less relevant.

I set up my home office so that I have the ability to do almost anything I need to from home, including answering questions via Imessage from any of the employee computers.

I generally come into the office so long as I wont infect the workers there. I was out for about a month with an ankle replacement surgery, but we didnt miss a beat because of my preparation and ability to use computers and remote access through gotomypc and apple's Imessage and filemaker remote access.

I think planning goes a long way to dealing with illnesses. I try to delegate everything I can and then monitor what happens. My job is really to be the inspiration for what we do, anyway.

It depends on how bad I feel. If I'm throwing up, I'll stay home. But there isn't much TheraFlu or DayQuil doesn't take enough of an edge off to allow me to function. I may not be 100%, but even if I stay home, I inevitably get buzzed with critical IT issues I have to fix, so it isn't as if I'm just getting the day off anyway...

I haven't been sick in over twenty years but before that I often did go to work when I was sick.

Figured that work would keep my brain from thinking about being sick.

No. I do not go into work when I am sick. And I resent when others do. I went around on this last December, as especially, our work rules specifically stated that you cannot come in when you are sick. I pointed out one employee to HR; and HR said, "Oh, it's just allergies." So I asked him how the cedar allergies were - it being December - and he replied that he was sick. He did not come in the next day.

Coming in when you are sick is like waving around a loaded gun. ... Oh! but I am trained by the NRA and licensed by the state, it is perfectly safe for me to wave around a loaded gun!....