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Many employers from all around the world believe the World Cup will affect their productivity, as most of the matches are played during working hours. They are afraid their productivity will decrease significantly because of their employees, who are very interested in football and they are going to rush home to watch Africa's first World Cup, or even taking time off to see the matches.
“It will always have an impact on the fact that productivity will suffer under this but on the other hand, the whole soccer atmosphere has contributed to people being more positive. So in that sense it might be a balancing act,” the Economist Richard Downing said.
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) published a study that shows more than half of the 687 employers that were questioned, admitted they were concerned about their employees being distracted by Africa's first World Cup. The same study revealed that almost 40% of the employers think their employees will take unauthorised time off to watch games.
In the United Kingdom, 54% of the employees said they are planning to watch the FIFA World Cup on their computers.
“We advise all businesses to be mindful about the impact this could have on their day-to-day business operations. Streamed content uses a lot of bandwidth and this could seriously impact the performance of their business Internet connection. It could take much longer to download important files or use business-critical applications such as e-commerce sites, email or online backup. It might even lead to office computer systems crashing,” said Clodagh Murphy, Director of Eclipse at KCOM Group PLC.
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