(Nexstar) – Record numbers of Americans reportedly descending heavily Monday Case After the Super Bowl on Sunday night, according to a new poll.
investigation Harris poll conducted On behalf of workplace solutions company UKG in January, it showed an estimated 22.6 million Americans are planning to miss Monday's work after the Super Bowl. More than half claimed they planned to seek a break in advance, while others said they were sick (estimated 3.2 million) or workplace with their boss (an additional 3.2 million) (an additional 3.2 million) ) is completely permitted to forge.
The overall absentee rate (22.6 million) is also the best estimate since UKG began tracking trends.
If the survey has advantages, it means that employees are more open about their intentions than they were last year.
“A record number of employees plan to miss work on Monday, but the business will be covered by managers and employees taking leave, arrangements for shifts and delays. We continue to have a more open conversation about making arrangements, said UK executive Julie Develin. Blog post.
It is noteworthy that the polls are based on surveys of relatively small groups of Americans. The UKG and Harris polls then claimed they would compete on Monday to get estimates of the total number of Americans employed (161,661,000 based on a December report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics). It was divided into proportions. According to Harris' polls, the data were also compared against “age, gender, region, race/ethnicity, household income, education, marriage status status, household size, and size of affiliation in a political party.”
In any case, the percentage of participants (14%) who planned to miss work on Monday for some reason was higher than in 2024 and 2023, when 10% and 12% said the same, respectively.
Perhaps it's a real flu case in the US is actually skyrocketing. In late January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded “very high” flu activity rates in 27 states.
However, the CDC did not say whether the rate of illness among chiefs and Eagles fans was particularly troublesome until the Super Bowl.
“We may be calling for illness tomorrow,” said the Eagles fan. I wrote it on social platform x While cheering for his team during the game. “I got that bird flu.”
