According to a study by the commercial health insurance company (KKH), alcohol addiction among employees has increased significantly over the past ten years. The number of KKH-insured professionals with excessive alcohol consumption increased by around a third (32 percent) from 2011 to 2021, in the age group of 35 to 39 year olds even by 88.5 percent, according to a report by the Funke media group (Thursday) in the study.

Overall, among the 700,000 working KKH-insured doctors diagnosed around 8,200 patients with alcohol addiction last year. Almost a third of working people also drink alcohol several days a week, nine percent of them daily.

According to the information, the length of sick days for employees suffering from alcoholism increased to an average of 38 days in 2021, after an average of 31 days in 2018 and 2017. The KKH recorded the highest value in the past five years in the first Corona year with almost 41 sick days.