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The world cup is getting ever closer and with it employers all across the world are no doubt wondering how they are going to cope with the sudden bout of employee sickness. You may think that your company employees are above this but did you know that during the last world cup employee absence due to sickness rose by a staggering 5%. Not only that people decided to take more annual leave. On how businesses are run and with the economy in the UK the way that it is can small and even large businesses cope with a sudden influx in employee absenteeism? The answer to that is probably not. So what can be done to not only keep your staff in work but keep them happy about it? There are really only two possible answers. The easiest would be to install televisions around the work place to display the world cup games during work hours. This will no doubt distract your employees so it may be best to turn the volume to mute during no England matches. Most employees will be happy with this solution and may even forget they are there. At least if they have the option to watch the match they are more likely to come to work than take a day off. This solution is a good solution if you feel that you will suffer from an influx in sick days. Some production will obviously be better than no production or worst still production that you have to pay overtime for to cover. Unfortunately if an England game falls during working time you probably won't get away with the volume being down and allowing people to watch it whilst working. There is no possible way around this and is better to let them all take the ninety minutes off and watch the game in its entirety. At least this way when it is over they will all be back to work rather than taking the whole day off. The second option will take a little more organisation on the companies part but if you don't want to go to the small expense of purchasing and setting up television screens offer a temporary flexible working system. This way your staff as long as their work is covered can take time off during matches as long as they make the time up when there is no football. This is definitely going to be more hard work than biting the bullet and buying some TV screens. At least now you have two options when it comes to the World Cup instead of just accepting the fact that you as an employer with have to take the hit in terms of high absenteeism during this wonderful five weeks that happens once every four years.
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