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If you're working for a company where it's seen as "heroic" or "passionate" to come to work sick, you're in a toxic environment.

I've had a couple co-workers who perhaps see themselves as heroic for coming to work sick, but everyone else resents them and wishes they would just stay home.

> in many companies it is treated as heroic to push through.

I disagree, I see myself as weak for staying home an extra day or two, but I don't see others as weak for doing the same.

Today, I think the pressure to push through is mostly self-imposed. That's makes it no less real though.

Personally, I don't like sitting in an office with someone who is coughing. During the current virus out break, I doubt anyone will appreciate you pushing though :)

Those environments are created by employees themselves. If you don't tell someone with a cold to go home, you are part of the problem.

By employees and by leadership. It absolutely does matter more what management does and how management acts then what random employees do.