World Cup Fever

The world Cup have begun and employers around the world are sceptical that people will skip world cup action for work.

In china, employees are geared up for the world cup fever. 20 percent of the sample size of the survey conducted says that they will stay up no matter how late the matches are. But, they also admit that it will affect their performance at work. In another scenario, there is an employee that holds up a card board saying ‘I will quit my job to watch world cup. These facts are based on the article from http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7022145.html.

In Singapore, employers also expect an increase sick leave and lower productivity according to http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1061763/1/.html, due to world cup.

The main issue to my opinion is the ability for the employees to watch the world cup matches rather than employees lazy to work because of world cup. Meaning, that if they were able to watch world cup and work at the same time without compromising each other, there would be any problem. I agree with the article from http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr//2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8754867.stm, saying that using the important or urgency checklist, one would be able to manage their issues better. Another point that I agree with the source is that employers should be more flexible and take advantage of the situation. What I see is that employers are focusing more on the problem instead of the solution.

For example, people in china are quitting their job because they want to watch world cup. This means that they are not able to watch their world cup when they are employed. The solution can come in many ways. Either change the shifts of the employees that follows world cup by allowing them to leave early from working over lunch or allow days off duty. This way, the level of productivity would not be affected that badly and the level of unemployment can be improved.