[christopheraden]

This is an interesting application of statistics! I'm surprised how well the sick-time ranking correlates with the sick times. Intuitively, I'd imagine we'd expect correlation between the ranks and the raw values (your X axis is just an ordinal version of the Y axis), but this is still quite high. I imagine that's a function of the underlying distribution. Your data could be conveyed effectively with a histogram, and I think that would paint an interesting picture.

Is there a picture associating the sick-time and the tenure? You mention it increases the R^2, but don't have an associated graph. Maybe you could post a scatterplot of Sick-Time and Tenure and show that logarithmic relationship?

Would you be able to provide anonymized versions of the data, or something like a table with (ID, Sick Time, Years of Tenure)? I'd love to play with it, and try a QQ plot. My email's in my profile.