Super Bowl set to cause ‘$3bn loss’ to US businesses with millions of hungover employees to skip work

Super Bowl set to cause '$3bn loss' to US businesses with millions of hungover employees to skip work

This Sunday’s Super Bowl will crown a champion between the Chiefs and Eagles – and also cause $3billion in losses to US businesses, new research suggests.

Super Bowl Sunday is famously known as a day of gluttony in America, with the game typically wrapping up past 10pm ET due to the elongated halftime.

And a new poll from UKG-Harris predicts that 22.6 million people this year expect to skip work the next day – a mᴀssive increase from 16.1million in 2024.

On top of that, a National Library of Medicine study cited by the New York Post shows that hungover workers are about 25 percent less productive and waste around two hours of the workday.

The average US employee makes $222 per day.

Thus, the hungover workers who do show up to the office (54 million alcohol-drinking Americans with jobs are predicted to watch the game), will cost their companies $55 per person, or $3billion person according to NetVoucherCodes.

Eagles fans are seen watching their team in the Super Bowl in 2023, in Super Bowl LVII

Eagles fans are seen watching their team in the Super Bowl in 2023, in Super Bowl LVII

Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes will face off on Sunday for a sH๏τ at glory

Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes will face off on Sunday for a sH๏τ at glory

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Research from the UKG-Harris poll also suggests that nearly 13million Americans will show up to work late on Monday. 

The idea that the Super Bowl should be a national holiday is long one that some Americans have held.

And the aforementioned poll found that 43 percent of employees would like to see that measure put into place.

For now, millions of American will be forced to decide whether to miss work or show up to the office the next day feeling ill.

The game could wind up being an all-time classic, as the Chiefs are favored by just 1.5 points.

The Super Bowl bowl will kick off at 6:30pm ET at the Superdome in New Orleans. 

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