According to Dailymail, after the EURO 2024 final , England witnessed 2 million people taking sick leave. Not only that, there are millions more tired fans asking to work from home, and many schools allow students to arrive late.
The famous supermarket chain Lidl decided to let 30,000 employees off work and open 1 hour later the next day. Besides, many other companies also allow employees to work from home after the EURO 2024 final.
Meanwhile, others ask employees to start work at 11am.
According to calculations by Claims.co.uk, an average of 425,000 British people call in sick every day. But after major events such as Christmas, bank holidays, football tournaments... the above situation skyrockets many times.
Compared to normal days, the number of people calling in sick after the EURO 2024 final increased 5 times, causing losses to the economy of up to 1.9 billion pounds.
Monitoring more than 50,000 companies in the UK, the number of workers using vacation days today increased by 126% compared to normal. Data from Bright HR shows that, compared to the EURO 2020 final between England and Italy three years ago, the rate of absenteeism at work increased by 232%.
Bright HR chief executive Alan Price said: “Businesses across the UK should prepare for a “sick Monday” after the historic EURO final.
We predict that the illness rate will increase to a record high. Whether Britain wins or loses, there will be more people quitting work, arriving late and having lower productivity."
Research from insurance company Vitality shows that by 2023, sick leave will cause economic losses of up to 138 billion pounds, an average of 380 million pounds/day.
