A survey by Paycom, a comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management software company, shows that there were 63% more sick-day requests in the U.S. on the Monday after the Super Bowl than the An estimated 22.6 million U.S. employees plan to miss work the day after the Feb. 9 Super Bowl, The number of employees who will call out sick, not show up to work or take a pre-approved day The survey also found that more than four in 10 (43%) working Americans believe Super Bowl Monday should be a national holiday, an increase from 37% in 2024. Sharp increase in sick-day requests. HR software provider Paycom also anticipates a significant spike in sick-day requests on Super Bowl Monday. In 2024, sick-day requests on the Monday Surveys over the years have shared how millions of Americans will call in sick after the big game. 16.1 million employees across the U.S. planned to miss work the day after Super Bowl 58 More than half of the 100 million people watching Super Bowl LIX on February 9, 2025, will not be fit for work the next day, either working less or calling in sick. According to a 2024 report , an estimated 16.1 million US employees planned to miss work on the Monday after the Super Bowl, with 6 million calling in sick despite not being ill. Roughly 14.5 million adults in the U.S. admitted to calling in sick (the so-called "Super Bowl Flu") to work when they weren’t actually sick on the Monday after the Super Bowl, with 11% being The day after Super Bowl LVIII, about 16.1 million employees are expected to come down with "Super Bowl Flu," according to the UKG Workforce Institute.. Why it matters: So many employees call off on "Super Sick Monday," petitions and even state lawmakers are trying to make it an official holiday. Millions of Americans plan to miss work Monday after Super Bowl. Around 16 million American employees plan to miss work Monday, Feb. 12, the day after Super Bowl 58, according to a survey of 1,192 Americans, conducted Jan. 10-12, 2024 by The Harris Poll for The Workforce Institute at UKG. RELATED: Rihanna returns to the stage triumphant - and pregnant - for Super Bowl halftime show. The survey, conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of The Workforce Institute, also found that an estimated 10.9 million employees (7%) were planning to take a pre-approved personal day on Monday after the Super Bowl in 2023. On Super Bowl Sunday, according to the survey’s estimates, about 17.2 million employees were expected to get out of work, fake a sick call or skip out on a Sunday night shift in order to watch Super Sick Monday? Roughly 1 in 5 Super Bowl viewers is expected to miss work the day after the big game. An estimated 26.6 million Americans are likely to miss some amount of work on Monday after The survey found that roughly one out of every five U.S. employees (17%) — an estimated 26.6 million people — were likely to miss at least some work on Super Bowl Monday, or the so-called In 2020, 17.5 million Americans reported that they planned to miss work the day after the Super Bowl, according to a survey conducted by the Workforce Institute at Kronos and The Harris Poll. LOWELL, Mass. & WESTON, Fla., February 04, 2025--The UKG survey finds an estimated 22.6 million employed Americans plan to miss work the day after the Super Bowl—breaking the previous record in Surveys over the years have shared how millions of Americans will call in sick after the big game. 16.1 million employees across the U.S. planned to miss work the day after Super Bowl 58 A record-high 18.8 million employees are predicted to miss work on the so-called "Super Sick Monday" after the highly anticipated Super Bowl LVII on Sunday evening. The estimates were released by The Workforce Institute based on an online of more than 1,200 employed US adults. According to a survey by the Workforce Institute at Kronos, more than 11 million people thought Sunday night’s Super Bowl 2020 was an event that required a day of recovery, and set aside RELATED: Why Taylor Swift’s private jet use is being criticized ahead of the Super Bowl. Roughly 14.5 million adults in the U.S. admitted to calling in sick (the so-called "Super Bowl Flu") to work when they weren’t actually sick on the Monday after the Super Bowl, with 11% being managers. The day after Christmas was the most popular day to skip work in 2019. Super Sick Monday (the Monday after the Super Bowl) is notorious for work call-outs, but for 2019 didn’t quite make the top 10.
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