A quarter of UK employees go to the office when they are ill because they have too much work to do, according to a new survey.

The survey, by AXA PPP Healthcare, found that nearly three-quarters (72 per cent) of employees go to work despite feeling so unwell they could legitimately stay at home. While 29 per cent said it was because they didn’t want to let their colleagues down, 24 per cent said they had too much work to do. Another 15 per cent said they chose to go in because they were worried that their sick record would be used against them if their employer made redundancies.