Whether or not it’s the New England Patriots or the Seattle Seahawks securing rings on Sunday, there’s a 100% risk that headcount might be slim on Monday morning.
Job attendance on Tremendous Bowl Monday is all the time shaky, however this 12 months could also be record-breaking. UKG, a agency that has commissioned analysis on post-Tremendous Bowl work attendance since 2005, tasks that 26.2 million employees will miss work on Monday.
Trying again ultimately 12 months’s sport: Submit-Tremendous Bowl sick-day requests have been up 45% that subsequent Monday in comparison with the common workday, based on a Paycom report launched this week. Paycom famous in its assertion that last-minute PTO requests, “reactive approvals” and determination fatigue can result in understaffing, recommending that HR attempt to be as proactive as attainable.
The silver lining for this 12 months’s bout of Tremendous Bowl flu? Staff are planning forward for post-Dangerous Bunny euphoria and post-fourth quarter revelry.
The sport day stats, based on UKG:
- 13.1 million will take a pre‑permitted time off, up from 2025
- 6.5 million will swap shifts with a co-worker, additionally up from 2025
- 3.3 million will name out “sick,” barely up from 2025
- 1.6 million will “ghost” their job, down considerably from 2025
Noting this projected shift in method to Monday’s inevitable hangover, Julie Develin, senior associate of HCM advisory at UKG, stated in a press release that it’s “a internet constructive as a result of unplanned absences can shortly add up — doubtlessly costing companies greater than $5 billion in misplaced productiveness.”
Dangerous Bunny stated we should always take extra photographs — and with extra folks being sincere about their Tremendous Bowl Monday wants, employees who’re OOO that morning can put up their Sunday night time snaps in peace.
