The day after Super Bowl

Each year, we spend Super Bowl Sunday hanging out with friends and family and watching the ‘big’ game. And yesterday was no difference. Except that we witnessed a major upset!

But what happens the following day is very interesting to us, given our line of business… according to a recent study entitled “Super Bowl Fever Sidelines Employees on Monday Morning ” which was sponsored by our good friends over at Kronos, an estimated 1.5 million employees call in sick the next day. But the real kicker is that this costs companies more than 1 billion dollars! Now that’s a hefty hangover bill if I ever saw one.

According to the study, many businesses are letting employees work half-days. There is even talk about making Super Bowl Monday a national holiday.

At the end of the day, I think the issue here is poor planning, which costs organizations so much grief, lost productivity, money, etc. If your organization suffers the Super Bowl Monday blues, why not plan for it the next time.

If you know there is a major snow storm coming in tomorrow morning, you usually cancel meetings, flights, production, etc. and plan around it. So, given the same logic, if you know that a lot of your employees will be calling in sick the day after Super Bowl, why not plan around that?