Labor & Employment Law

Super Bowl Monday "Flu" - 1.5 Million to Call in Sick

I recently received a media inquiry regarding Super Bowl Monday which I blogged about last year.  The premise is that there will be a loss of productivity as a result of what I'll call "Super Bowl Flu."  So this year I decided to do a little research and found that there actually was a survey conducted this year and the conclusion of the survey is that "an estimated 1.5 million U.S. adults may call in sick to work the day after the Super Bowl."

To make matters even more interesting, it is estimated that use of technoloy bandwith will surge as employees (well, at least those that actually go to work) look for game related coverage on the web.

So the next study should be this:  Let's calculate all of the people who will talk about the game on Monday, all of those who will surf the net to look for web coverage and those who will call in sick.  Then will add a calculation for lost productivity for discussions, football pools and the like which will take place prior to the game and tally that all up.  Gee, with all this loss of productivity - why don't just make it a Federal Holiday?!

Full post as published by Strategic HR Lawyer on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).