The USA’s penultimate sporting event has now come and gone and while the Superbowl happened on Sunday, a new poll reveals how it impacts the following work week. According to a survey, millions of Americans are expected to be calling into work the Monday after. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00The USA's penultimate sporting event has now come and gone, and while the Super Bowl happened on
00:04Sunday, a new poll reveals how it impacts the following work week. According to a survey
00:09conducted by the Harris Poll, some 22.6 million Americans are estimated to be calling into work
00:14the Monday after. The poll detailed that only half of those who were expecting to play hooky
00:18ask off ahead of time, with the other half calling in sick. Pollsters say this is the highest number
00:23of absentees post-Bowl they have ever tallied since the work solutions firm UKG began commissioning
00:29it, with 14% of respondents saying they were skipping work after the Super Bowl. According
00:34to another study by Net Voucher Codes, this equates to an average productivity loss of $55
00:39per worker, meaning these sick days total some $3 billion in losses every post-Super Bowl Monday.
00:45What's made this year even worse is that real sickness rates are actually on the rise.
00:49According to the CDC, 27 states have a very high rate of influenza, with most others seeing
00:56rates. Though they did not detail whether Pennsylvania or Missouri,
00:59the home states of each of the rival teams had more cases.