It's an excellent question.
I don't have any quantitative statistics to support what I'm about to say. I'm sorry.
Does a person who is impacted and has increased stress use their leave? Will they use sick leave or have an increase in sick leave? Sure. They certainly have that ability. I can only speak for myself as a person. If I feel stressed, if I feel the work environment is a bit poisoned, am I more apt to seek assistance or take some time off? Absolutely.
The other thing is that we have an employee assistance program within the service. It's confidential, so I don't know how many of the staff might seek assistance from the employee assistance program. I'm not privy to that information. That would be a big piece. I would think that absolutely it would be a resource utilized that I'm just simply not aware of.