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

This Sunday's Super Bowl volition crown a champion betwixt the Chiefs and Eagles - and besides origin $3billion successful losses to US businesses, caller probe suggests.

Super Bowl Sunday is famously known arsenic a time of gluttony successful America, with the crippled typically wrapping up past 10pm ET owed to the elongated halftime.

And a caller canvass from UKG-Harris predicts that 22.6 cardinal radical this twelvemonth expect to skip enactment the adjacent time - a monolithic summation from 16.1million successful 2024.

On apical of that, a National Library of Medicine survey cited by the New York Post shows that hungover workers are astir 25 percent little productive and discarded astir 2 hours of the workday.

The mean US worker makes $222 per day.

Thus, the hungover workers who bash amusement up to the bureau (54 cardinal alcohol-drinking Americans with jobs are predicted to ticker the game), volition outgo their companies $55 per person, oregon $3billion idiosyncratic according to NetVoucherCodes.

Research from the UKG-Harris canvass besides suggests that astir 13million Americans volition amusement up to enactment precocious connected Monday. 

The thought that the Super Bowl should beryllium a nationalist vacation is agelong 1 that immoderate Americans person held.

And the aforementioned canvass recovered that 43 percent of employees would similar to spot that measurement enactment into place.

For now, millions of American volition beryllium forced to determine whether to miss enactment oregon amusement up to the bureau the adjacent time feeling ill.

The crippled could upwind up being an all-time classic, arsenic the Chiefs are favored by conscionable 1.5 points.

The Super Bowl vessel volition footwear disconnected astatine 6:30pm ET astatine the Superdome successful New Orleans.